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
When engaged in hermeneutics, we are asking questions such as author’s intent, how the audience interprets the text in question, the assumptions that fuel the reader to make the conclusions they come to, etc.
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
We do not wonder that Webster, and all the other sound lawyers of the nation, heard such an announcement of Constitutional hermeneutics with utter surprise and astonishment.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 by Various
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