Quotes About Construed

I did not dare spurn him, anyway. It might have been construed as a crime of coldness once again. My fifth offense would have meant five years of Invisibility. I had learned humility.

Having learned to write news, I now distrust newspapers as a source of information, and I am often surprised by historians who take them as primary source for knowing what really happened. I think newspapers should be read for information about how contemporaries construed events, rather than for reliable knowledge of events themselves.

It could be construed that the reason I wouldn't wish to live in England is the immigration explosion. And that's not true at all.

Before the dawn of the scientific worldview, reality was construed differently. Being was understood as a place of action, not a place of things.