Decontextualized

Often it is decontextualized, that is, removed from everyday familiar background settings, dealing, for example, with major differences between the last four Chinese dynasties rather than “what I most like to do on weekends.” ❋ M.D. Mel Levine (2002)

Cognition and emotion, thinking and feeling, interpreting and relating -- these are separable only in pathology, as can be seen in the case of Descartes himself, the profoundly isolated man who created a doctrine of the isolated mind, of disembodied, unembedded, decontextualized cogito. ❋ Robert D. Stolorow (2012)

Just as a celebration of the bravery of, say, Japanese fighter pilots in World War II, without some context of the war they were fighting being a bloody and vicious attempted imperial conquest of Asia and the world by an overtly militaristic power would be a conspicuously decontextualized bit of history. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Here, it's as if someone plugged an amplifier into a Mark Rothko painting -- color, texture, space are decontextualized and presented in striking elemental form. ❋ Daniel J. Kushner (2011)

His statement about the lack of an adequate observational network to diagnose the climate's response to interannual variability was decontextualized and thus trumped up as has been done in the past to make it appear it's an admission that global warming has ceased. ❋ Bill Chameides (2012)

Most exhibited works were decontextualized, without information about origins. ❋ Malcolm Bell (2011)

As well, I simply wish to have control over these writings while yet I live so that they are not found after my death and turned into a decontextualized circus of my defamation. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Whenever I see students made to cram facts into their short-term memories for a test, practice a series of decontextualized skills on yet another worksheet, listen passively to a lecture, or inch their way through the insipid prose of a corporate-produced textbook, I find myself thinking of a comment made by Frederick Herzberg, a critic of traditional workplace management: “Idleness, indifference, and irresponsibility,” he said, “are healthy responses to absurd work.” ❋ Unknown (2010)

Frankenstein itself most frequently appears as decontextualized phrases, or even single words--the Monster sees the editing process, the interplay between Mary and Percy's verbal and stylistic choices, but not the story in its entirety. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Scholarly inquiry is ever more rarefied, decontextualized, and dependent on dubious abstractions and pretty theoretical constructs detached from the everyday miseries and mysteries of the world. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And since online information "is often decontextualized," he adds, it "satisfies immediate needs at the expense of deeper understanding (result: more superficial thought?)." ❋ Unknown (2010)

A large portion of the media coverage of the hikers has created an essentially decontextualized, vapid image of them as (in Shon's words) "some sort of granola-munching, REI-club idiots." ❋ Unknown (2010)

The sculpture had been deconstructed and decontextualized and I wondered what remained. ❋ Unknown (2010)