construal

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While Islamic tradition focuses on the character of Noah, the Genesis Flood is entirely about God, about a new monotheistic construal of both divine judgment and the pro-human reversal of that judgment.

From Salon • Apr. 12, 2014

One unfortunate consequence of this background shift is that as unbelief seems to more and more people the only plausible construal, they find it difficult to understand why anyone would adopt a different one.

From Slate • Jan. 6, 2014

Our level of construal influences, in turn, how we evaluate a situation and how we ultimately choose to interact with it.

From Scientific American • Jan. 4, 2013

In that movement, we change our construal, our representation of the world.

From Scientific American • May 8, 2012

She foresaw how the bad would misinterpret it, yet felt that she could afford to defy their incompetent construal.

From The Friendships of Women by Alger, William Rounseville