Quotes About Context

This was a commercial situation, not some exercise in an Applied Theology course.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

Every beauty, when out of it's place, is a beauty no longer.

To me, merely and pretty were words that had nothing to do with each other. Pretty went with miraculously, and merely belonged in another paragraph entirely.

The very best pictures adapt themselves to many changes in meaning.

When you learn through coding, [you're] coding to learn. You're learning it in a meaningful context, and that's the best way of learning things.

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.

The greatest rule in doing biblical exegesis is that the immediate context of a passage is crucial in determining the meaning of that passage.

But 'if ' is not a word to use in history.

Is science a fundamentally cooperative enterprise, or is it a fundamentally competitive one in which scientists are out for personal advancement? According to Hull (and also Merton), science runs on a combination of cooperation and competition. Neither is fundamental, and the special features of science are due to an interaction between the two. This interaction arises from the reward system found in science and the context in which the reward system operates.

Argumentation is a human enterprise that is embedded in a larger social and psychological context. This context includes (1) the total psyches of the two persons engaged in dialogue, (2) the relationship between the two persons, (3) the immediate situation in which they find themselves and (4) the larger social, cultural and historical situation surrounding them.

The purpose of a story or poem, unlike that of a diary, is not to record our experience but to create a context for, and to lead the reader on, a journey.

Even the slang of the time – 'Isn't it killing' – had an inbuilt and not entirely unconscious irony.

Make it? Fred echoed. Make what? The team? The chick? Make good? Make out? Make sense? Make money? Make time? Define your turns. The Latin for 'make' is facere, which also reminds me of fuckere, which is Latin for 'to fuck', and I haven't...

Words belong in contexts, not pegged out like biological specimens.

But then she remembered what the gyptians had said: Include things, don't leave them out. Look at things in their context. Include everything.

The meaning of one thing is its connection with another;

The meaning of something is its connection to something else

Because history is not the background—history is the stage! And you are on the stage! Oh, how sickening is your appalling ignorance of your own times!

exformation, which is a certain quantity of vital information removed from but evoked by a communication in such a way as to cause a kind of explosion of associative connections within the recipient.

With many important exceptions, the tone of much American historical writing turned deeply negative during the early twenty-first century. It remained so as these words were written, in 2021.

The properties of an object are automatically exposed, whereas the variables in a closure are automatically hidden.

The body is the easiest thing to adjust to... It's the life, the context of the body, that can be hard to grasp.

In wondered in avenging was being used as an adjective or a verb.