To Clark, the cruelty only reinforced her ideas about the oppressive system.

"This just reinforces everything bad about him," he said.

To some executives, the stock market's fall reinforced their doubts about the economy.

"Working with very poor people in Appalachia reinforced my views about a lot of things," he said.

It only served to reinforce her own misgivings about him.

This in turn is reinforcing Sunni anxiety about voting, he says.

All of which seemed to reinforce his notions about spring training.

But he also reinforced some ideas about his classmates' conversions.

Neely's work reinforces her beliefs about race and class in America.

The period tells us the mass, of course, which reinforces our guess about Prima.