Sentence examples for He construed from inspiring English sources

He construed it as a partial down payment.

He construed the lines as a caution against the morbid mindset Lincoln found in them, telling his young audience, "I hope that none of you ever get that pessimistic or that cynical about life".

He construed a closed diagnostic system leading to a personally dedicated treatment.

It's a puzzling statement because the video doesn't show Schwartz being shoved, unless he construed Harbaugh's hard backslap as a shove.

All the evidence suggests that Hoover was genuinely devoted to what he construed as the public good, with the proviso that he wanted his devotion to be recognized.

Thus, although the campaigns of Svyatoslav indicate the extent of the political vacuum that his clan filled, he construed his domains as a clan possession rather than as a territorial or national state.

There, he construes the sculptor's message: "Agony awaits if you let your child out into a world of lost souls.

However, in this case, Raine is unsatisfied with the idea that poem is nothing more than descriptive; instead, he construes the torch as "an emblem of consciousness, the blaze of being, bright yet brief, in the surrounding darkness".

Every time he has discussed the subject, he has emphasized not his obligation or his willingness to listen to the advice of Congress but what he construes to be his his constitutional right to ignore the advice.

As in Jacobean tragedy, sexual licence and cruelty are symptoms of a wider disorder, which he construes philosophically (via Hobbes) as well as sexually, and with an undecorated power which owes more to the verse of Ben Jonson than to his immediate contemporaries.

But he construes the creative process of the genius rather differently from Kant.