Sentence examples for interpretive act from inspiring English sources

In the absence of explicit and complete instructions — that is, most of the time — conservation is fundamentally an interpretive act.

Mr. Poor's collaborators in this loosely interpretive act will be the tenor saxophonist Bill McHenry, the trombonist Josh Roseman and the bassist Ben Street.

In some sense this is an interpretive act — any Table that records codification decisions does, after all, record a set of interpretations, and so will its model.

He and I appeared together on Bloggingheads TV and talked for an improbable forty-five minutes about the stimulus, as well as the interpretive act of watching the stimulus.

To reinforce the lesson about the creativity of the interpretive act, we later discussed some clips from an experimental production of the play, focusing on how directorial choices reflected interpretive ones.

In its human aspect atonement occurs through an interpretive act that creates new relationships among the members, including the traitor, together with a new understanding and fresh embracing of their unifying cause.

Obviously no synopsis can be neutral whether it is based on narrative or dramaturgical structure, because it involves interpretive acts.

Archaeology has come to mean many things to different generations of scholars, yet all approaches share in common a focus on the physical remains of the past and on the interpretive acts that enliven these remains and are challenged by them.

This series begins with Harris's 1988 monograph Interpretive Acts: In Search of Meaning Oxfordd: Clarendon Press), to which the present book is a sequel.

Interpretive Acts is a constructive work the polemical force of which remains largely implicit in the roads that it pointedly does not take in theorizing the linguistic basis of literature.

Briggs's idea that comparing Genesis to other, contemporaneous myths, and comparing it to a scientific treatise written 2,500 years later, are somehow similar comparisons, and the two interpretive acts can shed light on one another, struck me as odd, if not misleading.