Biden's comments came as the Trump campaign said the Republican nominee's remarks in Virginia on Monday morning were taken out of context by critics.
In the broader context of humanitarianism, as critics like Linda Polman have pointed out, the empathetic reflex can lead us astray.
However, she did address sports in her speech's conclusion, perhaps the highlight of the evening, and it was in the context of answering her critics.
Consider the context of the criticism.
And that followed Mr. Romney's statement that he knows what it's like to worry about getting a pink slip, and a comment, taken out of context by his critics, that he "likes to fire people".
Opening the door to questions of context and credibility, critics of the ruling say, could allow exactly the kind of scrutiny of the woman's personal life that the so-called rape-shield laws were meant to stop when they were enacted beginning in the 1970's.
"And even if there's something to today's complaints about increasing rudeness and incivility, you have to put these in the broader context of a longstanding tradition of critics of American manners".
Though they were later attacked for their formalism and for avoiding the social context of writing, the New Critics did much to further the understanding and appreciation of literature.
But the latter is something Romney discusses rarely -- and almost solely in the context of responding to his critics.
The absence of political and historical context angered critics and some members of the public, especially the French.
Its disappearance should be understood in the wider context of the layoffs of film critics from newspapers and magazines across the country.
