Sentence examples for intention meaning from inspiring English sources

What Mr. Witt-Dörring has done, essentially, is to kick away this standard framework for interpreting intention, meaning and difference.

Mulligan is an actress of intention, meaning that she often plays her characters without seeming to understand why they're reacting as they are, and yet we can see the intelligence in their eyes.

Mulligan is an actress of intention, meaning that she often plays her characters without seeming to understand why they're reacting as they are, and yet we can see the intelligence in their eyes, and we like feeling that we're in on their secret, which is that they're far more thoughtful than Mulligan's gamine beauty initially lets on.

Their perception of it may be very different from the author's intention; neither is right or wrong but simply reveals the slippage between intention, meaning, and understanding.

Surprisingly, this belief is positively related to intention, meaning that healthcare professionals do not see the expected change negatively.

Alcohol dependence is highly stigmatized and as a result healthcare professionals often have low behavioural intentions, meaning low willingness to care for these patients.

This brings in banned words like purpose, meaning, and intention.

To put this differently, the "of-ness" of presentations and perceptions does not coincide with the intentionality of intentions or meaning acts and, as we will see below, one additional way to flesh out this point is that the latter form of directedness, not the former, is conceptual.

By his own account, James coordinated the "transfer" and then oversaw all aspects of their interrogation, detention and even treatment, although he warns: "There was no mistaking our intentions...:" meaning the health care treatment was meant as preparation for interrogation.

Sometimes, these feelings are confused, and you can misread intentions or meaning.

Where we use the verb "to enact" as well as its conjugations and cognates, we intend it as content-agnostic – by saying that a person enacted some particular movement, whether physically or imaginatively, we deliberately wish to avoid ascribing or not to that movement epistemic appendages such as understanding, meaning, intention, or grounding.