Both Uses of
context
in
Atonement, by Ian McEwan
- The context helped, but more than that, the word was at one with its meaning, and was almost onomatopoeic.†
Chpt 1 *
- In another context, a different profession, she would have seemed motherly in her plumpness, or even sensual, for her unpainted lips were rich in natural color and sweetly bowed, and her face with its rounded cheeks and doll's patches of healthy pink suggested a kindly nature.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
the setting or situation in which something occurs