This helps us construct a picture of your lifestyle.
"Yet you can construct a picture of the Hamptons from reading what Dan writes".
Through our senses, our brains construct a picture in much broader brush strokes.
The data generated by this project will help scientists construct a picture of how flowering plants and animals are being affected by climate change.
What is it about forensics that interests her? "It's the crossover between the rigorous scientific methods and the magic of the trace being able to lead you to construct a picture, or a scene," she says.
Forced to construct a picture from the scraps of evidence gleaned from the media, I'd say the women spent their days crying and dreaming of lipstick while the men strode about barking theological maxims and beating their indomitable chests.
Just how dangerous was signalled in 2007 by the science writer Mark Lynas, who combed all the available scientific research to construct a picture of a world with temperatures three times higher than the danger limit.
As the would-be settlers round Cape Cod, searching for a harbor and a home, Philbrick is able to place the small vessel on the shelf, and to construct a picture, the leadsman handling the smaller line, "in near-perpetual motion: heaving the lead, letting the line pay out, calling out the depth, then drawing in the line and heaving the lead again".
In more innocent times, I would assume this was a coordinated move by Wilshaw and Gove to construct a picture in which the main problem with education was feckless parenting, so the main policy levers should be the punishment of fecklessness.
Drawing on material from newly opened archives of the Roman Inquisition (which began in the mid-1500's and didn't peter out until around 1900), he constructs a picture of church-sanctioned prejudice and oppression ranging from forced baptisms and conversions in the 19th century to expressions of virulent racial hatred in the 20th.
