Acontextual

Scalia just excised the introductory clauses from the Second Amendment to make it read like some acontextual substantive right. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Our bullshit 24/7 acontextual snippet-ry punishes candidates for departing from the blandest of bromides. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The whole “science is compatible with religion” thing, while not strictly untrue, is dreadfully acontextual as to what religion actually IS and WAS. ❋ Unknown (2009)

To the contrary, you insist on acontextual and eccentric interpretation of the text. ❋ Unknown (2006)

This kind of flattened-out, acontextual claim, abstracts from, and blanks out, all the actual details of sociological and political interest. ❋ Unknown (2008)

No one is walking away from it with the idea that I want an acontextual political ideology incapable of challenging bad philosophic trends in contemporary America. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I mean, I don't know if it's right or not, but the whole point of a reflex is that it's acontextual, right? ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)

But in fact, one might suppose that the proponent of EC would disavow the meaningfulness of the latter question, if it is intended to be one which admits of some acontextual answer. ❋ Rysiew, Patrick (2007)

Finally, we consider the acontextual processing which occurs when the current context is no longer relevant, and may trigger the switch to another context or the formation of a new context. ❋ Chris (2004)

We discuss a mathematical model of contexts which allows a context to split into several contexts, agglutinate from several contexts, or to constellate out of relatively acontextual processing. ❋ Chris (2004)

Jonathan Rauch draws a useful contrast between "Reagonomics", the actual economic-policy stance of the Reagan presidency, and "Republicanomics", a vulgar, acontextual cartoon of Reagonomics. ❋ Unknown (2011)

[62] I do not think that Hugessen J.A. in Beloit intended that the rather colourful description of obviousness that he coined be applied in an acontextual manner applicable to all classes of claims. ❋ Unknown (2008)