construal

• “There is no consensus on what the idea implies, but it is plain that on any plausible construal the entire mainstream spectrum in the United States is liberal; everyone is committed to limited government, individual freedom, the rights and liberties enshrined in the Bill of Rights, and to a host of other characteristic liberal positions.”

  The Huffington Post: Andrew Levine: What "Professional Left"?

• “Polman and Emich make use of construal level theory.”

  The Huffington Post: A Simple Trick to Boost Your Creativity

• “This construal of the Wilsonian Model seems needlessly ideological.”

  Economics vs. Populism, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “The reason design theorists dislike the word is not because they repudiate every possible construal of it, but because they regard it as a Protean term which, much like the process it describes, adapts itself too readily to any situation.”

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• “Under the most charitable construal, it seems that LeBron James has chosen to play the role of Robin to Dwayne Wade's Batman en route to a long-term NBA title plan.”

  The Huffington Post: Andrew Wilkes: Lebron James and the Taste of Humble Pie

• “As always, Dawkins' hyper-critical construal of religion brings out the offensive squad for the Religion Team.”

  The Huffington Post: Philip Clayton, Ph.D.: Is Stephen Hawking Right About God?

• “As always, Dawkins 'hyper-critical construal of religion brings out the offensive squad for the Religion Team.”

  The Huffington Post: Philip Clayton, Ph.D.: Is Stephen Hawking Right About God?

• “It is not anti-military, but it does reflect–to a biassed extent–the "ugly American" construal of US intervention in global affairs.”

  Critics: 'Avatar' is anti-military & anti-religion

• “But he has also implicitly adopted a third construal of the term, which not only undercuts his promise of change but fails to recognize that the public overwhelmingly elected not only a Democratic President but supermajorities of Democrats in both houses of Congress, and they did this for a reason: They did not want a continuation of the failed Republican policies and ideology of the last eight years.”

  Drew Westen: Change vs. Bipartisanship: What Happens When You Throw a Bipartisan Party and Half the Guest List Stays Home?

• “This construal of "bipartisan" runs the danger of producing legislation that seeks the "golden mean" between truth and falsehood, good policies and failed ones, and exhorts Democratic legislators who were elected to enact the best policies they possibly can to "split the difference" between good ideas by some of the best economic minds in the country and the failed ideas of the rigid ideological descendants of Herbert Hoover.”

  Drew Westen: Change vs. Bipartisanship: What Happens When You Throw a Bipartisan Party and Half the Guest List Stays Home?

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