""Without reproducing a work in full, it is surely all that can ever be furnished.""

Not, I suspect, your original thought or words, which is why I have no problem with categorising that sentence as "weasel words".

You know perfectly well that just adding in a dozen surrounding sentences can easily reverse the meaning which an interpreter has chosen to convey.

A classic from the bible is the story of Jesus chasing the money lenders(changers) from the temple.

How many times have you seen that used to claim that he thought those men were evil.

Just a superficial glance at the surrounding text shows that it was the location, not the occupation, to which he objected.

Don T.