During group activities, children were expected to communicate intent using words or gesture or both, and turn taking was facilitated using sounds and words as well as body language such as eye contact, gestures, movements and actions.
The literary theorist Paul de Man quoted Archie and Edith's dialogue to dramatize a point, appropriately enough, about the slipperiness of meaning: the idea that the intent of words was endlessly interpretable.
Whole school training shifted the first scenario to a more positive response, but we needed to unpick the second scenario further by asking the children more questions around their intent and word choice.
It is perfectly reasonable to point out that the intent and wording of the original petition had nothing to do with gender, but rather more disingenuous to completely ignore the fact that the response from many of those supporting it, or attacking Kuenssberg for similar reasons, has been very gendered indeed.
It will now pay close attention to the "context and intent" of the words used, not just the words themselves or the actions that took place, it says.
And, if we're willing to look beyond certain appearances, and use sound interpretive principles to understand the intent behind his words, I think we can close this new book with no regrets about how we have admired him in the past as a man struggling to see the just and right eventually prevail out of difficult circumstances.
In other words, intent matters.
What matters is not intent, in other words, but impact.
The intent, in other words, is to bestow upon the game a carefree and democratic ethos.
Ms. Almontaser said that the intent of her words about intifada had been distorted.
