redescribing

He sees Orwell as redescribing the Soviet Union by demonstrating what the “Communist oligarchs were really doing.”

Matthew Yglesias » Free Comic Book Day 2007

By contrast, take a look at the life of Paul Wellstone: the former wrestler, one of our great contemporary political figures, began by describing himself (correctly) as a fighter, but once he got into office he learned that sometimes you can win a fight by redescribing it as something other than a fight.

Stephen Burt: Obama on Fox: the Medium, and the Message 2008

And in case science and humanities start congratulating themselves, we have to remember their versions of magic: redescribing a situation alters it; the final unified theory is around the corner; control is within our reach (given the appropriate research funding).

Service to mark the 175th anniversary of King's College, London, Westminster Abbey 2004

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Intention Setiya, Kieran 2009