Such criticism differs from academic criticism because it construes art production less as a discrete object of study than as a point of engagement.
Because it construes the categories of "Gay Father" and "Lesbian Mother" so widely, the study itself admits that its subjects "look less like children of married biological parents than they do like children of adoptive parents, stepparents, single parents, and divorced parents".
"People accepted the notion of nervous breakdown often because it was construed as a category that could handled without professional help," concluded a 2000 analysis by Dr. Stearns, Megan Barke and Rebecca Fribush.
Some historians have argued that the Ford administration felt the need to respond forcefully to the incident because it was construed as a Soviet plot.
He said many people support the concept but not its use on the four cottages because "it could be construed as spot zoning" that could crowd the area.
The panel in Microsoft II, because it was construing a consent decree, was not bound by Jefferson Parish or Eastman Kodak.
It was held invalid, because, as construed and applied, it attempted to modify the remedial law of the admiralty courts.
The Colgate University Board of Trustees has ruled that the university will drop the Red from its sports logo, effective immediately, because it could be construed as offensive to American Indians.
Presumably, the university's concern was that the inclusion of such an "offensive" article in Atrium might put off some of the university's donors and the hospital's patrons, either because of its acknowledgement of oral sex or because it might be construed as demeaning to women.
The idea is clever and politically daring — maybe too daring, because it could be construed as raiding a revenue stream dedicated to the Social Security trust fund.
