As David Sosa argues, "groups might be said to have a mind or a will but only in a derivative sense: the persons that are members of the group have minds, and the group's mind (in whatever sense it has one, its beliefs and desires) is some sort of construct from those minds" (Sosa 2007, p. 215).
I loved that simple sort of construct.
"At the time, I had no friends at all, even fewer than I do now, um, and I was sitting in my attic for years on end, constructing this, sort of, er, construct - heh heh - in my head, and on paper and in music".
Writing of the First String Quintet, Porte calls it a sonorous and warm-hearted sort of work, constructed on fairly classical lines, and notes that the character and construction are typical of the composer.
It's the sort of expertly constructed set-piece McCann is particularly good at, and his imagistically lucid prose nicely captures the craziness and excitement of the moment.
It's the sort of tightly constructed, soulless comedy that Michael Frayn sent up in "Noises Off," which was a major inspiration for Mr. Walsh.
In the case of a definite description, "the constituent of the proposition will be some sort of complex, constructed from various attributes by logical composition.
How long before we see Corbyn looking disconsolate on the Megabus to Milton Keynes, reading his beloved Private Eye just in front of a couple watching boxing clips with the sound up on their Samsung Galaxy Tab? Actually, if this is the sort of highly constructed stunt Jeremy's good for, then is he even who he says he is at all?
I am finding quite a lot that are kind of generic titles and no coherent constructs reported... for meta-ethnography you have to have some sort of clear construct to be able to take away.
It feels more and more like some sort of apologist/capitalist construct: "See, all is well, and it always was! Us scrappy humans can redeem any dang situation!" What I don't like about this is that it implies that, when redemption doesn't happen, it's the unredeemed person's fault.
