He suggested that the book uses a strategy of selective quotations from the Koran, which he calls "history for dummies".

Gordis brings forth quotes from the Tanakh which shows that this view is a misleading caricature of both religions that was created by selective quotation.

Gordis again brings forth quotations from the Tanakh which in his view prove that this is a misleading caricature of both religions, created by selective quotation.

Would have been useful to have the assistant head's full feedback, seems a selective quotation to me.

In other ways there has been the politics of selective quotation.

By using "highly selective quotations" from those cases, he argued, the Court was able to narrow the limitations it had placed on them.

First, you publish selective quotations purporting to be my view of United States China policy (news article, Oct. 28).

Editor,- Unfortunately, the emerging epidemic of cardiovascular disease in developing countries cannot be explained by selective quotation or wishful thinking.

In fact, my views are much more balanced than Monbiot's selective quotations imply.

Yet no amount of selective quotation can refute that the Constitution strengthened rather than weakened slavery.