Word: depictions
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...investigative-media outlet that managed to film several officials taking bribes, was shut down, and a systematic campaign of harassment let loose against its employees and investors. Individual Hindus have employed strong-arm tactics against Christian missionaries and burned down churches. And school history textbooks have been rewritten to depict India's medieval history as a long saga of unending Muslim barbarism. As Neeladri Bhattacharya, professor of modern Indian history at Jawaharlal Nehru University, noted in an article published last year, so inaccurate are the new textbooks that they represent nothing less than "declarations of war against academic history itself...
Despite efforts by the White House--and some Democrats--to depict Dean as a weasel for his opposition to the war, 8 out of 10 Democrats consider him patriotic. But voters are still coloring in their feelings about Dean--69% of adult Americans in the TIME/CNN poll say they do not know much about him, and more than three-quarters of Dean supporters say they could still change their minds...
...common element in her newer works, Wong chooses to depict many replicas of her own figure in order to represent all of the layers of the self that can be explored. Rather than exclude the viewer from the artist, Wong’s technique manages to draw in the public and encourages them to empathize with her experiences through her work...
Throughout Wong’s career, her paintings have changed to reflect the way she has evolved as a person. Her earliest works depict dolls configured in various positions, a focus Wong attributes to her too-brief childhood...
Vendler marveled at how Yeats could depict violence and horror without taking sides...