Especially if non-attendance were construed as a tacit attack on the right to breathe.
Purely literary descriptions of their freedom, their breathtaking mobility, and their agelessness were construed as practical objectives by later generations.
On that same day, Hewitt stirred up controversy when his on-court remarks to the umpire were construed by some to be racist.
Refusing to produce goods for sale to comfortable collectors and instead making "dematerialized" works that sharpened and elasticized thought were construed as forms of political resistance.
He meant the observation as a compliment, no doubt, and would be offended if it were construed as racist, but the then England captain inadvertently painted the outsize Maori winger as something of a genetic peculiarity.
In that case, Wagner's remarks were construed as coming from someone speaking up for his fellow relievers and as an older member of the team calling out someone who was younger and, by nature, less likely to respond in kind.
