Sentence examples for decontextualized from inspiring English sources

Zemeckis's vision of the towers is utterly decontextualized, cut off from the life of the city at large and from the era overall (and a pointed reference in dialogue to Richard Nixon's crookery conceals more than it evokes).

Disjunctive, compressed, decontextualized, and, most important, cut-and-pastable, it's easily reassembled into works of art.

In Paris, Hollywood movies were novel, exotic — and also decontextualized.

His oddest guest appearance of late has been on "All You," alongside the electropop duo the Cataracs and the house music producer Kaskade, on which his shouts are mere decontextualized dressing.

Evocative contemporary testimony overwhelms the book's philosophical framework, while tantalizing quotations from philosophy and literature are often decontextualized, their connections to contemporary military realities abbreviated.

This leads to decontextualized reporting and an amplification of outlier views.

It separates the message from the author and from the context in which it was written, thereby "decontextualizing," or universalizing the meaning of, language.

It's especially surprising if you think that a machine is doing the decontextualizing unintentionally, and ending up with something that seems poignant or meaningful.

Standardized tests are flawed because they decontextualize learning and attempt to break it up into tiny measurable segments.

"We wanted to explore fashion from a different angle, decontextualize it and make history visible," said Mr. Johansson.

"The I.D.F.'s 'propaganda' has given Israel supporters all over the world digital ammunition that they can use to share, decontextualize and tell their version of the Israeli struggle," he wrote in an e-mail from Israel, where he was visiting.