Sentence examples for often construed from inspiring English sources

Science and mythology are often construed as antipodes: the realm of hard facts versus that of full-blown fantasy.

Good governance is often construed as an essentially humanitarian preoccupation, a civil-society concern that is forever trumped by more pressing strategic obligations.

As he remarks in the Miscellanies preface, "Pride, Ostentation, Insolence, Cruelty, and every kind of Villany, are often construed into True Greatness of Mind".

In epistemology, contextualists are often construed as holding that both the skeptic ("You don't know!") and her opponent ("Oh, yes I do!") speak truthfully when they debate.

For example, task difficulty, task novelty and aging all typically involve increased reaction time and decreased accuracy27,28,29,30, which are often construed as behavioural metrics of cognitive effort.

The report said the committee, under the Clinton and Bush administrations, had often construed national security too narrowly, looking only at such factors as the control over technology exports, classified contracts and specific derogatory information about a company.

Although biologists universally view the decomposition of a system into its lower-level parts as reductionistic (an instance of methodological reduction, see Section 1), they often construe the attempt to understand how the parts are organized so as to bring about the system-level properties as a synthetic, non-reductionistic endeavor (Bechtel 2010).

I listened to a black man in the audience describe how he felt it was necessary to teach his sons that they could not go out walking after dark, because walking while black at night is far-too-often construed to be a criminal activity.

The photo ― blurred and bubbling from the edges ― transforms what photographers often construe as mistakes into opportunities for additional experimentation and play. .

This can often be construed as insincere, yet the rampant hostility ahead of UFC 199 comes off as if it's grounded in something more real than ticket sales or showmanship.

A Harvard historian treats objects -- spinning wheels, yarn winders -- as documents that speak as loud as writing to the real cultural history of an era that has often been construed as a pastoral age of simplicity, harmony and self-sufficient household production.