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At one point, Mr. Bloomberg accused Mr. Green of "smearing" him by quoting "out of context" remarks he had made on, among other things, the need for a third-party witness to corroborate a rape allegation involving an employee of his company.
That sentence goes on in a crescendo of contradictions, and quoting out of context as I am doing is probably unfair.
In his review of my "Borges: A Life" (Nov. 7), David Foster Wallace gets up to the usual mischief of the dishonest reviewer -- quoting out of context, twisting and trivializing statements and grossly misrepresenting my aims and methods.
They don't bear quoting out of context (just imagine the most mind-parching piece of legalese you've ever tried to read), but they are used judiciously and they become curiously mesmerising.
Her method is to hang prominent theorists with their own words -- often citing excessively long passages from their writings (to avoid, I suspect, charges of quoting out of context) -- as they describe, in sometimes shockingly undemocratic terms, how the country's "army of incapables" can't be expected to achieve even basic literacy or numeracy.
If they really cared to find out whether there were transitional forms in the fossil record, they would stop quoting out of context from children's books or outdated secondary sources and obtain the proper anatomical and paleontological training to study the fossils themselves.
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The Blues have been strongly linked with the athletic Brazilian, reportedly making a bid of £30m last week, but quotes out of Ukraine today suggest otherwise.
Intent on putting a stop to all the speculation and quotes out of context, I gave a full account to Vatan, one of Turkey's leading newspapers.
They were actually the ones putting these flash quotes out there.
She had been quoted out of context, she said.
He complained about being quoted out of context.
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