decontextualize

La Lata's creators, Manuela Martínez and Carmen Palacios, say they "wanted to decontextualize the object of the tin, and generate an element of surprise" surrounding the sealed contents.

Reinventing the Magazine 2009

And to decontextualize the poet is to make a trophy case display of the history of poetry.

More Academic Bashing: The Kids Want More : Major Jackson : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

Try to decontextualize it and see if it still makessense.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Welcome to Washington, Mr. Ricci: 2009

Such aspects of botanical illustration worked to decontextualize plant life and reinforced the idea of the efficacy of plant transfers, which undergirded the worldwide traffic in plants orchestrated by Kew Gardens.

swoonrocket jms 2009

Personally, I remember most of my history classes mentioning the Trail of Tears in about one sentence, American slavery in possibly a single period "Yeah, it was awful, but there was the Underground Railroad, which we'll totally decontextualize in order to make it sound awesome and not at all like the desperate escape route it really was!"

Curriculum Sharing Sage 2008

Enacted constitutions do not come into being against the background of a state of nature of isolated individuals; and by this I do not mean to invoke the too-familiar critique of the supposedly decontextualized liberal person, but rather to critique the aspiration to decontextualize the legal and political order.

Archive 2008-05-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008

However, what would happen if we lose the ability to decontextualize and deconstruct our soundings, our culture, our lives?

Archive 2008-01-01 Aaron M. Wilson 2008

Why do you decontextualize a passage of covenantal law to promote an environmentalist agenda?

Lean Left » Blog Archive » Read Your Bible, A Continuing Series 2006

Now he'll certainly twist it and decontextualize it.

Well, You're All Just a Bunch of [Insert Incredibly Unfair Epithet Here] Chris 2005

We decontextualize our feelings and expect them to take root in alien soil.

News & Politics 2010