Example sentences for: interpretations

How can you use “interpretations” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The row of giant black rectangles dominating puny pedestrians walking below ( Wall Street , 1915) inspired numerous social interpretations, but to our eyes it might look like an anticipation of obdurate monoliths by artists from Ad Reinhardt to Richard Serra.

  • This handsome, outsize TV antenna makes up for its unimaginative name (from its builder, the Canadian National railway and telecommunications company) with all the fanciful interpretations of its shape: jousting lance, hypodermic needle, serpent frozen rigid while swallowing a football.

  • And while the comparison may be a bit facile, it helps illuminate the crucial point about revisionist interpretations of Asia, which is that they fail to recognize that one can believe in the virtues of the market while still understanding that markets sometimes fail.

  • Its adherents tether their interpretations to plain meanings as they were understood when the text was first penned.

  • Of course, we don't want to get caught up in the intentional fallacy, and a work of art of strength should be open to a variety of interpretations, but I think there's a danger of missing the plot (and incidentally patronizing African culture) if we deny Ofili's Madonna its subversiveness, iconoclasm, and sheer naughtiness.


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