Sentence examples for he construes from inspiring English sources
"he construes" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It means "he interprets or understands." You can use it in a sentence to describe someone's interpretation of something, for example: "Despite the confusing instructions, he construes them as a challenge rather than a hindrance." Another example: "She often misunderstands his intentions because she construes his words too literally."
There, he construes the sculptor's message: "Agony awaits if you let your child out into a world of lost souls.
However, in this case, Raine is unsatisfied with the idea that poem is nothing more than descriptive; instead, he construes the torch as "an emblem of consciousness, the blaze of being, bright yet brief, in the surrounding darkness".
Every time he has discussed the subject, he has emphasized not his obligation or his willingness to listen to the advice of Congress but what he construes to be his his constitutional right to ignore the advice.
As in Jacobean tragedy, sexual licence and cruelty are symptoms of a wider disorder, which he construes philosophically (via Hobbes) as well as sexually, and with an undecorated power which owes more to the verse of Ben Jonson than to his immediate contemporaries.
But he construes the creative process of the genius rather differently from Kant.
1358/61) even goes so far as to say that everything is a relation (relativum, though not relatio, since like Ockham he construes the latter as a second intention).
He construed it as a partial down payment.
It's a puzzling statement because the video doesn't show Schwartz being shoved, unless he construed Harbaugh's hard backslap as a shove.
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.
Thus, although the campaigns of Svyatoslav indicate the extent of the political vacuum that his clan filled, he construed his domains as a clan possession rather than as a territorial or national state.
"I will try to avoid it, as I did the first nomination," he said, but added that if he construed it as a personal duty, as defined by his Islamic faith, then he would run.
