Word: context
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...text andalmost provide a pictorial text on their own. Attimes, the book can be academically dry; at othertimes, it can be preachy. It is dry, however, onlywhen the writers attempt to integrate too manysources without enough commentary; it seemspreachy only when taking on homophobia anddiscrimination. Given the nature and context ofthese flaws, they are certainly forgivable
Eventually political dialogue will devolve into textual analysis in dead languages. Christians have argued that the Jews are immoral because they killed our saviour. Must we entertain such blatant nonsense, even for a moment? Clearly couching social debate in the context of personal religious experience is untenable...
Though the Irish and the English have historically fought bloody battles over every sort of territory, Heaney's move is not one that furthers that conflict. His reclamation of Beowulf does not violently uproot the epic poem from its English context and encourage ethnic possessiveness. In fact, it bridges at least one gap between the two parties...
...bang-up way to start a trial. Microsoft's outside-the-courthouse spin team peddled the view that Boies' opening statement was based on "loose and unreliable rhetoric and snippets that were not in any reliable context." But court watchers were already arguing whether Gates' statements were actually perjurious or merely Clintonesque. Some saw an even more sinister subtext to Boies' opening statement and the incorporeal, larger-than-life double-tongued creature he described as luring unwitting followers to his crusade for world domination. Could the U.S. government really be suggesting that Gates is evil incarnate...
...with koalas. Australian culture, except for some of its pop music and literature, is wretchedly underreported in the U.S. In fact, this is the first effort ever made by an American museum even to show any images made in Australia in the 19th century, let alone give them context and historical placement...