Word: depictions
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...projects, he said, would be to write something that could be "read in several ways, like Henry James." Another would be to write about the Argentine revolution, avoiding the tendecy to depict it as "picturesque," a fault, he said, that many other writers have exhibited...
...images of disintegration have a double significance; they depict the destructive wheels of modern civilization, grinding man further and further into physical fear and spiritual slavery. But they represent simultaneously the destructive mind of the artist--the man who tears down illusions -- exposing the world to men's eyes that he might be born again. The two processes are not combined accidentally; it is only because civilization is decaying that man is brought face to face with his greatest challenge; only the experience of a chaotic world forces man away from his naive comforts, leaving him with the choice: bigger...
Science, beginning with Copernicus, has knocked flat the old, literal, three-story concept of the universe-heaven in the top floor, hell in the cellar, the earth in-between. Physicist-Priest Pollard feels that a whole new imagery must be invented to depict for modern man the relationship between the natural and the supernatural...
...Brown & Williamson shows no actor is allowed to grind out a cigarette violently in an ashtray or stamp it out underfoot. "Whenever cigarettes are used by antagonists or questionable characters, they should be regular size, plain ends, and unidentifiable. But no cigarette should be used as a prop to depict an undesirable character. Cigarettes used by meritorious characters should be Brown & Williamson brands...
...handful of the items date from after World War I. And most 20th-century portraiture tries to achieve far more than surface realism. Yet these examples are especially gratifying because they depict subjects most of whose looks and work and character are quite familiar to us--Freud, Hemingway, Toscanini, Shaw, de Gaulle, Eisenhower, Gertrude Stein, Nehru, Einstein...