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  • Instead, each time I walked into Colton's room, I saw my little boy slipping deeper into the grip of whatever mysterious monster held him. Not only was he not getting better; he was getting worse faster. ... I had seen this look many times, but in a context where you might expect it, in a patient suffering from terminal cancer or in the final phases of old age.   (source)
  • Because this is a true story, involving an extraordinary episode in American history, we have included a list of dates and laws we hope will make it easier to follow. It needs some historical context.   (source)
    context = description of the setting or situation in which event occur
  • INTERROGATOR: (a pause) By "context," do you mean at the macro scale?†   (source)
  • Rather, it was a matter of context.†   (source)
  • Later, though, she began to talk about them in a different context.†   (source)
  • I knew Halliday had frequently used similar riddles in many of his early adventure games, and each of those riddles had made sense in the context of its game.†   (source)
  • What is the meaning of freedom in such a context?†   (source)
  • Langdon was always frustrated when he saw the symbol in this context; the pentacle's true origins were actually quite godly.†   (source)
  • Placing the use of defensive magic in a context for practical use.†   (source)
  • Chet replied, "Maybe in the context of what scientists know now, but do you rule it out completely?"†   (source)
  • The context was very different, but nonetheless it almost made my head explode.†   (source)
  • Later I thought if there were enough of them it would sort of put him in context, or diminish him somehow.†   (source)
  • "Tell me the 'context,' " said Randy White.†   (source)
  • In some other context, he might be encouraging a reluctant boy to step into cold water.†   (source)
  • The context helped, but more than that, the word was at one with its meaning, and was almost onomatopoeic.†   (source)
  • "Gogol Ganguli," the clerk says, motioning for Gogol to approach the dais, and as eager as he is to go through with it, he is aware, with a twinge of sadness, that this is the last time in his life he will hear that name uttered in an official context.†   (source)
  • It keeps all the data in context.†   (source)
  • She didn't feel that the Jamaican context offered enough.†   (source)
  • I had been puzzled by how frequently the peace sign, or V for Victory, was flashed between them, in all sorts of incongruous contexts, and it might have gone on being a mystery for a lot longer if my dad hadn't just come out and asked Xandra for a Vicodin when he thought I wasn't listening.†   (source)
  • I'm not sure what that means in this context.†   (source)
  • An essential feature of this disorder is a pervasive pattern of instability of self-image, interpersonal relationships, and mood, beginning in early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts.†   (source)
  • But in the context of where we were, it made a lot of sense.†   (source)
  • Forever after, LuLing brought up the ring in the context of that greedy remark of her sister's.†   (source)
  • "But who is the wizard?" asked Colonel Kassad, the amplified voice through his helmet oddly amusing in this context.†   (source)
  • It just sounded funny in that context.†   (source)
  • "He's great if there is any context at all," said Jessup.†   (source)
  • In the bigger scheme of things, in the context of all the death and destruction that Muslim extremists have visited upon this world, a bunch of Iraqi prisoners being humiliated does not ring my personal alarm bell.†   (source)
  • The dome was too much—not too tall to be built, simply too proud for its context.†   (source)
  • Beginning readers, of course, are at a slight disadvantage, which is why professors are useful in providing a broader context.†   (source)
  • "Of course, if you combine all these technologies, you're able to quickly ensure behavioral norms in any context.†   (source)
  • You have to figure out the vowel sounds from context.†   (source)
  • Chacko said that in the context of the war he was talking about—the War of Dreams—Despise meant all those things.†   (source)
  • In another context Clary would have said that they looked baffled.†   (source)
  • The fact is, there was little choice but to approach the matter as I did - as I am sure you will agree once I have explained the full context of those days.†   (source)
  • As incomprehensible as it sounds at this moment, you may well know this man in a different context one day.†   (source)
  • I just blurted it out, blunt and loud with no buildup, no context.†   (source)
  • Jacobs pauses to let the weight of what she has just said sink in for me, then she puts it in context.†   (source)
  • I paused for that jarring moment when you try to process someone you've seen in only one setting, put them in a new context.†   (source)
  • Strict interpretation depends on context.†   (source)
  • Also, to arrive in the Rocky Mountains by plane would be to see them in one kind of context, as pretty scenery.†   (source)
  • In the context of this, much of what went on in normal life seemed wholly and disturbingly ridiculous.†   (source)
  • Do you think you can imagine your own life in a cosmic context?†   (source)
  • And since the victim does not have the vocabulary to understand the violence or its context, gullible, vulnerable girlfriends, looking back as the knowing adults they pretended to be in the beginning, would have to do that for her, and would have to fill those silences with their own reflective lives.†   (source)
  • Without context, without a signature, the piece of paper wasn't much to go by.†   (source)
  • When he recovered, he went on sampling Haiti, and anthropology and medicine in the context of Haiti.†   (source)
  • They met in some political context and had a relationship which resulted in a son, Gottfried, who was born in 1927.†   (source)
  • Takahashi says, "Yeah, but if I were to say 'I can't answer that' in this context, it'd be like a de facto yes.†   (source)
  • And all of them had to be considered in the context of precedent.†   (source)
  • We do not seek to dominate the ANC; we are working within the context of African nationalism.†   (source)
  • I'm from a place very far away called Context."†   (source)
  • Luma The name Luma means "dark lips," though Hassan and Sawsan al-Mufleh chose it for their first child less because of the shade of her lips than because they liked the sound of the name—short, endearing, and cheerful—in the context of both Arabic and English.†   (source)
  • In this particular context, the nearest translation might be "the maiden all forlorn!'†   (source)
  • The sign had surprised Carla since "forgive us our trespasses" was the only other context in which she had heard the word.†   (source)
  • Their costumes don't really make sense in the context of the holiday, but like I said, the whole point is to show off in front of the junior and senior boys.†   (source)
  • This distinction probably has less to do with the admittedly small amount of money involved (Feldman's bagels cost one dollar each, cream cheese included) than with the context of the "crime."†   (source)
  • After extracting a few context- free specifics about the movie from her, I set to work writing an incredibly generic three-page paper about the Industrial Revolution.†   (source)
  • Aid workers function in the context of an aid bureaucracy, while social entrepreneurs create their own context by starting a new organization, company, or movement to address a social problem in a creative way.†   (source)
  • Context?†   (source)
  • All around me the crowd was singing along to the song, one they'd heard all their lives too, but never quite in the context that I had.†   (source)
  • In this context it was an amphitheater of death.†   (source)
  • The word shock, in this context, is meant to mean I was no longer there.†   (source)
  • So while a character might make a sound that creates the words for"pare," "pair," or "pear," context usually makes the meaning clear.†   (source)
  • But he can't relate it to anything; he sees only strange terms in a foreign context.†   (source)
  • As soon as kitsch is recognized for the lie it is, it moves into the context of non-kitsch, thus losing its authoritarian power and becoming as touching as any other human weakness.†   (source)
  • "In a business context," I say, equally shortly.†   (source)
  • Her face hovered over me, and for one second I thought she was going to kiss me, which would have been very strange in the context of our exchange.†   (source)
  • Their display was simple abandonment to affection, foolish in any other context, but completely genuine here.†   (source)
  • His father asked how could the commentator have offered such an interpretation when in another passage in the Talmud he had said exactly the opposite, and Danny, very quietly, calmly, his fingers still playing with the rim of the paper plate, found a difference between the contradictory statements by quoting two other sources where one of the statements appeared in a somewhat different context, thereby nullifying the contradiction.†   (source)
  • The whole collection creates a context in which to ponder your own personal philosophy.†   (source)
  • "Unsteady?" asked Strigan, understanding the word, but not its context.†   (source)
  • Tests involved decisions in ten scenario contexts, with prestructured alternatives drawn up by Walter Reed Psychiatric Division, after n-order test analysis by biostatistics unit, NIH, Bethesda.†   (source)
  • He did but in the wrong context, I'm afraid.†   (source)
  • Still, the infamous Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 must be seen in the context of the time, and the context was tumult and fear.†   (source)
  • I believe, sir, that we have had this conversation, here in this N cry Hall, albeit then in a hypothetical context.†   (source)
  • In the context of what Joe had told her, this recollection seemed by the moment to grow more disturbing to Barbara.†   (source)
  • He states a truth or two, arranges a clever context, and leads his audience to draw conclusions that suit his purpose.†   (source)
  • In the right context, a split infinitive can look like the end of civilization as we know it.†   (source)
  • Individuals are seen only in the context of these swirling social tides.†   (source)
  • But in our context the title bore much less deference.†   (source)
  • I could cite one of the many laws of contexts and contrasts.†   (source)
  • In this context, will one good government provide more safety than any other number?†   (source)
  • We have to invent very natural unnatural situations—classrooms where everyone faces front, usually under the threat of more or less brutal discipline—to get people to use language for learning outside the gossip-context.†   (source)
  • 25 microns, or what tolerance means in this context, or what a micron is.†   (source)
  • But it was a dull thought, like a child spelling out the letters of a word which he cannot read, and which if he could would have no meaning or context.†   (source)
  • It was an Arabic expression that, in this context, meant little by little.†   (source)
  • As previously mentioned in another context.†   (source)
  • Within the context of our obligations to other people.†   (source)
  • By which I do not mean merely to consign it to a typology of folktales, or to dispute its value by questioning its culture bound status within a multi-cultural context.†   (source)
  • CLAUDIUS takes Ros's elbow as he passes and is immediately deep in conversation: the context is Shakespeare Act III, scene i. GUIL still faces front as CLAUDIUS, ROS, etc., pass upstage and turn.†   (source)
  • Physical modesty in such cramped quarters 1 The fine for killing alligators appears to be a conservation measure and means of controlling turtles, not a punitive action against the Negroes, though few Negroes realize this. was impossible, indeed in such a context it would have been ridiculous.†   (source)
  • But the context of the speech was more staggering even than its delivery.†   (source)
  • "So they simply stay on," Bortz said, "in the context of conspiracy.†   (source)
  • I hope they are forgivable in terms of the context out of which they arose.†   (source)
  • I believe that people identify things only in context.†   (source)
  • She had published a number of books and articles with titles full of alienations, roles, transactions, social contexts, and more alienations.†   (source)
  • But this oddity of Earth is not odd in its own context.†   (source)
  • "Your Honor," my lawyer chuckled as he stood up, "Ms. Gold's statement is taken totally out of context."   (source)
    out of context = in a misleading way because it lacks the situation in which it occurred
    "Editor's Notes"
    When someone is quoted "out of context" it means that selected words were quoted that misrepresent the meaning of all their words.

    For example, if you said "I admire their effort, but they are dead wrong if they think this will work," and someone implied that you supported their plan by quoting you as only saying, "I admire their effort," they would be quoting you out of context.
  • But tonight, in context, as it were, we know each other.†   (source)
  • Now I think it is in context to return to peace of mind and see what I was talking about.†   (source)
  • She can dress, speak, and act in a manner that would be deeply shocking in other contexts.†   (source)
  • They couldn't quite place the thing in context.†   (source)
  • He wanted to put it all in context for Kit.†   (source)
  • But in context, our AI says it refers to your tribal motto.†   (source)
  • "Every word must be placed in context," she reminded us each day at the end of our lesson.†   (source)
  • We do this because, like vervets, we are a lot more attuned to personal cues than contextual cues.†   (source)
  • Yuko tried to put it in context.†   (source)
  • Indeed, he was a man of some six feet three inches, and his countenance, though reassuring while one knew he was intent on obliging, could seem extremely forbidding viewed in certain other contexts.†   (source)
  • Certainly by the afternoon, she would have taken in and synthesized the warmth of the millions who cared for her, and would be ready to properly thank Mae, to tell her how, now with the new perspective, she could put the crimes of her relatives in context, and could move forward, into the solvable future, and not backward, into the chaos of an unfixable past.†   (source)
  • And there are plenty of other computer conditions besides a power-off condition in which mu answers are found because of larger contexts than the one-zero universality.†   (source)
  • The dualistic mind tends to think of mu occurrences in nature as a kind of contextual cheating, or irrelevance, but mu is found throughout all scientific investigation, and nature doesn't cheat, and nature's answers are never irrelevant.†   (source)
  • No one taught her to go looking for birds per se in her reading; rather, what happens is that, based on other reading experiences in a variety of courses and contexts, she learned to watch for distinctive features of a text, for repetitions of a certain kind of object or activity for resonances.†   (source)
  • What makes this simulation possible is the ability computers offer to break down the way we talk into small pieces of sound, to put them in a context—actually, in hundreds of contexts.†   (source)
  • After days of sitting on the sidelines, not being able to enter conversations because he couldn't offer anything in context, he has discovered a way in.†   (source)
  • 687 Results of special testing confirm the Odd Man Hypothesis, that an unmarried male should carry out command decisions involving thermonuclear or chem-biol destruct contexts.†   (source)
  • "When we were on the plane to Italy," I whispered—this was not a lie, except perhaps in context—"on our way to rescue you… she lied to Jasper so that he wouldn't come after us.†   (source)
  • He used the term "SIS" in official contexts, and among colleagues he would also refer to "the Company" or "the Firm," or merely "the Division"—but never "Säpo."†   (source)
  • If you put it in context.†   (source)
  • But the lesson of the Power of Context is that we are more than just sensitive to changes in context.†   (source)
  • And the kinds of contextual changes that are capable of tipping an epidemic are very different than we might ordinarily suspect.†   (source)
  • We will always reach for a "dispositional" explanation for events, as opposed to a contextual explanation.†   (source)
  • When they are away from their families — in different contexts — older siblings are no more likely to be domineering and younger siblings no more likely to be rebellious than anyone else.†   (source)
  • But we need to remember that small changes in context can be just as important in tipping epidemics, even though that fact appears to violate some of our most deeply held assumptions about human nature.†   (source)
  • Why did all these things rush back so easily when I viewed the cards-rush back without dragging their contexts along with them?†   (source)
  • He was the same Colonel, but in a totally different context.†   (source)
  • Certainly not, but some things can be right or wrong in relation to a certain historical context.†   (source)
  • This is where the ole lokhay warkawal gets shoved into context.†   (source)
  • I can usually guess it from context, but other times I just miss out.†   (source)
  • "YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THE CONTEXT," said Owen Meany.†   (source)
  • Until they'd met tonight, he had never seen her outside the context of her family, or she his.†   (source)
  • YE: We're talking about the speed of space flight within a certain context.†   (source)
  • "So in the context of Polo, this is a no," said Serena.†   (source)
  • Their features, in the context of their huge selves, seemed small and delicate.†   (source)
  • The words were all common enough, but the context confused me.†   (source)
  • The computer will display your keyword hits along with mono prelogs and triple postlogs for context.†   (source)
  • The other Emigres appeared to find his challenges and taunts a proper context for their endeavor.†   (source)
  • I make up an identity, I invent a context.†   (source)
  • Peace of mind in a profit-oriented context.†   (source)
  • It is within this context that what Phaedrus thought and said is significant.†   (source)
  • That simple rain, however, is placed in a context where its conventional associations are upended.†   (source)
  • I think about it and add, "That's a child-psychology term…a context I dislike.†   (source)
  • But they saw only the word and its rhetoric context.†   (source)
  • This was something he used to say before, in a sexual context, teasing.†   (source)
  • I'm just making the point that the context doesn't have to be exclusive.†   (source)
  • And in what context did the name Jonas crop up?†   (source)
  • This was in the context of a discussion about how many people I would kill my first newborn year.†   (source)
  • In the context of our discussion, it was true.†   (source)
  • Nor did Sarah, though in an entirely different context.†   (source)
  • This I Believe is an exercise in philosophical self-examination in a public context.†   (source)
  • It is important for the child to get some distance from the context.†   (source)
  • It would be able to assemble its own context, its own picture of what I was.†   (source)
  • 'Nor do I care for out-of-context lectures,' said McAllister.†   (source)
  • My father, without any context, was horrified.†   (source)
  • It's about hanging on for dear life to what's on the inside, no matter how your context changes.†   (source)
  • The stab of a coldly rebellious anger brought him back to the full context of the moment.†   (source)
  • There was no context in which the word salesman could offend him.†   (source)
  • You can tell usually by context what the differences are.†   (source)
  • Women's writing is something we pick up as girls, and we rely on context to coax meaning.†   (source)
  • In that context the collateral damage was pretty damn small.†   (source)
  • What is spectro in this context, Dr. Foster?†   (source)
  • There was no context for the line except the one that Lenny took with him everywhere.†   (source)
  • Their skills, while not necessarily "specialized," are practiced in a very specialized context.†   (source)
  • In this context, the Israeli occupation of the West Bank seems to her to be absolutely immoral.†   (source)
  • Any feelings you had in the context of a courtroom had an explanation.†   (source)
  • Without that context, how could she understand why anyone had acted as they did?†   (source)
  • The only response, in this context, is to escalate-to not give in, not ever.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, without context or warning, Robert Stadler whirled to face him.†   (source)
  • It floats on a white sea, without context.†   (source)
  • Maybe I don't trust the need for context.†   (source)
  • The blind sip test is the wrong context for thin-slicing Coke.†   (source)
  • He had been told nothing about the tribes involved; all identifying context had been edited out.†   (source)
  • We looked at him in the context of photography down to cartoon character kinds of things.†   (source)
  • All of the people who warmed to Kenna had that kind of context.†   (source)
  • In that context, then, Coca-Cola's error with New Coke becomes all the more egregious.†   (source)
  • This is what I meant when I called the Power of Context a radical theory.†   (source)
  • In the context of it, they didn't let people know there was a difference.†   (source)
  • The answer lies in the third of the principles of epidemic transmission, the Power of Context.†   (source)
  • The success of Ya-Ya is a tribute to the Power of Context.†   (source)
  • But what do Broken Windows and the Power of Context suggest?†   (source)
  • But the Power of Context says that what really matters is little things.†   (source)
  • It says that behavior is a function of social context.†   (source)
  • Broken Windows theory and the Power of Context are one and the same.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER FOUR: THE POWER OF CONTEXT ( P A R T ONE) Page 133.†   (source)
  • The Power of Context is an environmental argument.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER FIVE: THE POTER OP CONTEXT{P A R T TWO) Page 176.†   (source)
  • The Power of Context says you don't have to solve the big problems to solve crime.†   (source)
  • In the context of the day, this was heroism.†   (source)
  • In his children he was trying to instill a sense of the value of work, the value of whatever came into their house, but he knew that much would be lost in the context, the waste and excess of the culture at large.†   (source)
  • In another context this insight would have been depressing, but I was too preoccupied with the weather to dwell on it.†   (source)
  • We are unique human beings, each with a call to realize in life what nobody else can, and to realize it in the concrete context of the here and now.†   (source)
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