Perforated edges allow one to punch the cards from the hardcover and arrange them as they like (that between the Nabokov and the Palin it's the Nabokov that involves an interactive game is surprising).The reading restored the writers' reputations: Nabokov, even read out of context, rose to poetry; Palin, in context, did not.
Solitary reading also enables people to read their scriptures too selectively, focusing on isolated texts that they read out of context, and ignoring others that do not chime with their own predilections.
It was a decree about visa requirements, but, read out of context, it sounded as if East Germany's own borders would open.
Both thrive on their quotability, knowing full well how easily so much of what they say can provoke outrage when read out of context; and both of them are, in their own very different ways, what the press loves to call "big personalities".
Foraker quickly denied any impropriety, stating that the relationship was not secret and the excerpts had been read out of context.
It is people who don't know any better who are likely to say they are happy.Moreover, you read "Candide" out of context.
I can personally weather the deluge of angry tweets and Facebook messages, but if someone doesn't take the time to read a sentence of context, what right do they have to weigh in so aggressively on the subject?
And how even more embarrassing the realization that there exists in our beautiful country a minority of highly vocal NRA-ers who, validating their beliefs with an incomplete and out-of-context reading of the 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, want absolutely no restrictions in the spread of weapons designed solely for the military and for killing people.
Then, too, there is the swift communication of the emblematic configurations and the slower reading of the historical context.
This speech, like George Osborne's earlier in the week, was subtler, showing on one level an intelligent reading of the current context in which some in the Labour Party and the non-Tory media ache to be wooed.
