contextless

The reading is deliberately contextless, and the mind is assumed or encouraged to be a Tabula rasa.

I think you're right in positing this feeling of resentment as a motivation here in an otherwise quite contextless outpouring.

He called it a "contextless slice-of-life [song]" that sounded more appropriate for a television commercial.

Your editorial was particularly astonishing for its contextless, inexplicable call for Turkey to "acknowledge" the "massacre" of Armenians 70 years ago.

Such an approach is, of course, counter to the contextless concentration on the single text that characterized the New Criticism, and which served American literary education for many years.

In an open letter to the university board of trustees, Kushner called Weisenfeld's successful attack a "grotesque caricature" of his position "concocted out of three contextless quotes".

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Urbinum Hortense was an ancient Roman town of central Italy, of uncertain location, mentioned by Pliny the Elder in a roughly alphabetical and contextless list (NH 3.114).

Television Is Blamed Television was responsible for this amnesia, he suggested, saying, "I believe it is this contextless television experience that led to the tragedy of Tiananmen on June 4."

The most significant aspect of the New Historicism, political questions apart, is that it represents a move away from the contextless, intensive concentration on particular texts equally characteristic of the New Criticism, classical structuralism, and deconstruction.

Since Shields does not like to offend anyone, does not choose to define any of his terms or do any literary criticism, and fills most of his book with contextless quotations from other writers (most of which are not flagged as such in the text), it is hard to divine exactly what or whom he dislikes.