In the case of Méliès, that vulgar material could be construed as the motion picture machine.
Indeed for some people their lives can be construed as the pursuit of unhappiness.
That, indeed, could be construed as the real pity of that play.
A few emails to friends cannot, in any light, be construed as the curatorship of a major international film festival".
Still, his theory might be carelessly construed as the view that racism is a rationalizing gloss for forms of exploitation whose real motivation is something else.
They believed their companies to be consecrated to what they construed as the national interest, and to deserve, in turn, the nation's unequivocal support.
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.
Animation can be construed as the miracle of bringing the inert and the dead, as well as the past, back to life.
These could easily be construed as the early shots of a power struggle – or, at least, one that is potentially in the making.
He said it was "inappropriate to express personal feelings that might have been construed as the position of Boston College or the Atlantic Coast Conference".
If Furyk were a spiteful person, the giggle that then escaped his lips could have been construed as the last laugh.
