Thomas Suddendorf, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, adds that while the observations suggest "extraordinary capacities" such as "planning and premeditated deception"—what he calls "rich" interpretations of Santino's behavior—"we cannot rule out leaner interpretations without experimental study".
It's impossible to envisage the amber-eyed fighter Varjak other than in McKean's lean, angular interpretation; and the galactic quest at the heart of Phoenix would lose much of its breathtaking scope and feel if the book's interwoven images were lost.
I lean toward this interpretation, but among what we might call the "professional liberal" class of advocates and pundits, it seems I'm in the minority.
I lean toward this interpretation, partly because, as I said in a Twitter dialogue on Monday, the expression on his face was the satisfied smirk of a man who knew, in his bones, he was going to absolutely crush a pitch.
The reason the second one works better, is that it doesn't come right out and say that Jane is thinking of her deceased father, but it does lean towards that interpretation, especially with her using the word "doctors" instead of "vet".
This latest interpretation leans dangerously toward Norman Rockwell territory, when more of the bleakness of Edward Hopper would be welcome.
Just put the gun down and walk away.' " Boehner leans toward that interpretation, which dictates a particular approach: an effort to achieve things that might be broadly considered sensible, doable, and practical, like the earmark moratorium.
Moreover, a new intelligence bureaucracy would invariably lean toward homogenizing interpretations of intelligence.
However, our results clearly demonstrate that inter-individual variations in hematocrit, especially between obese and lean subjects, may affect interpretation of expression data and should be considered as an important co-variate in future studies.
For now, Professor Iacoboni leans toward this second interpretation, though he is withholding judgment until the experiment is over.
