Word: interpretative
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...latest book, Walzer endorses a model of social criticism embodied in the second strategy, criticism which recalls to the roommate a past in which she herself was a participant. As Walzer sees it, you are in fact asking her to interpret a story of which both of you are a part; or, more precisely, you are asking that she accept your interpretation or offer a better one. As Walzer puts it, "the experience of moral argument is best understood in the interpretive mode...
...director, Davenport seems to have allowed her actors free rein to interpret their character as they choose and only the aforementioned actors and Mark Levine as another friend have the discipline to keep Davenport's flat characters from fading into the background. Like Davenport's direction, Jennifer Bucksbaum's pepless choreography might as well not be there at all. The occasionally good acting and sometimes clever songs cannot fill all the voids the make It's Really Me really unsatisfying...
...rule and his disastrous economic policies during the Great Leap Forward of 1958-60. Some observers took this as an attack on Deng's own leadership. Said one Asian diplomat: "I can't believe Deng wanted that old speech to be printed. It is too easy to interpret as an attack on himself...
...regain his composure before addressing the audience of dignitaries. "Do I have the right to represent the multitudes who have perished?" asked Wiesel. "Do I have the right to accept this great honor on their behalf? I do not. No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions. And yet, I sense their presence. I always do -- and at this moment more than ever." Afterward, Wiesel explained why his usual eloquence had briefly failed him. "I saw my words become visible," he said. "I had written the speech for my father...
...judge with the lawgiver," Meese argued that although high-court decisions made "constitutional law," they were not synonymous with the Constitution itself. Neither were they even the last word on the meaning of its provisions. Each of the three branches of government, he said, "has a duty to interpret the Constitution in the performance of its official functions...