hermeneutics
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To be fair to the practice of hermeneutics, there is also a more charitable way to look at Pence's remarks.
From Salon • Aug. 27, 2023
In fact, hermeneutics challenges the basic idea of things having one absolute meaning.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
Sharpton was at the lectern letting his words roar and flow, telling stories that circled back on each other in the familiar hermeneutics of black preachers.
From Washington Post • Jun. 4, 2020
Interpreting Jacqueline’s messages often required a sophisticated hermeneutics: “You are not too cold or buggy at nights? I have screams. Also, I did not mention before I am a poet.”
From The New Yorker • Apr. 22, 2019
But here, as dessert, after junks of Rubrics, and indigestible slabs of controverted hermeneutics, come the light truffles and pâté de foie gras of Crolly's 'Contracts.'
From My New Curate by Sheehan, Patrick Augustine