It was a big, clunky thing, constructed from budget hardware — but it demonstrated the possibilities of adding a display to a smart speaker.
That world, the one we inhabit every day of our lives, is a yeti a fantastical thing constructed out of bits and pieces of reality plus the magic wand of the mind.
And in this eternal structure the principles were not temporally first, but first in relation to the dependence on them of the things constructed.
They may take our gift and do the easiest of things: construct a better Iraq than the one that the Tikriti killers have put in place.
Intended for use as a universal second language - an auxiliary tongue by means of which all people, no matter what their origins, might communicate freely - it is a constructed thing, a deliberate invention that must be deliberately learned.
Frightened that the Americans might mistake the set for the real thing, they constructed a 100-foot-long banner and wrote in English: "This is a movie set".
The opera is a perfectly constructed thing: Tatyana's irrepressible emotion as a young girl is mirrored by her iron self-control as a woman; the country dance of the first half is mirrored musically and visually by the austere and grandiose ball in St Peterburg.
While making and construction has as its heart the acquisition and exploration of powerful ideas, creating contexts and enacting activities where the learners encounter and take ownership of these ideas requires an epistemic commitment to knowledge as a constructed thing (rather than passed down or written onto the learner) and a disposition amenable to improvisation.
Besides, you might reasonably argue, a death like Cobain's is a far trickier thing to construct a celebration around than the arrival of Britpop.
As the cabin rises, the relationship deteriorates, until it is clear that each is "a thing misunderstood and badly constructed from beginning to end".
It had to be a constructed thing.
