Word: portrayers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...again and again among the younger churches-that of making Christianity indigenous to the East through syncretism, the deliberate borrowing from other religions. "We have the long-established art of flower arranging in Japan," he said, "and I once asked a lady who was a famous flower arranger to portray the Crucifixion in flowers. It is syncretism to arrange flowers to represent Christ, but we do not make the mistake of worshiping the flowers...
...remove all doubt of Becket's motives, the author placed the demands of the world in the mouths of four tempters, whose role was to persuade, not to portray men. The director must force these speakers to understate, and must impose evenness and unity upon them. Instead, Corum has allowed the tempters to act as individuals who have personalities of their own instead of intellectual pawns who play Eliot's spiritual game. Only Richard Silberg remains impersonally persuasive; Philip Alston Stone, Stephen Kennedy, and Andreas Teuber have created personalities for themselves (in Teuber's case, and Eliot's lines...
Perhaps your picture intended to portray Joseph as he is today-about 2,000 years...
...brush for Sisley was not an instrument of attack or of dissection. What affected him in nature was not its force but its fragility. His paintings could be bright and gay, but almost never exuberant; they could portray sadness or loneliness, but never great grief. Sisley was drawn not to the powerful but to the perishable; he was moved not by stormy passion but by quiet poetry. His favorite part of any landscape, he said, was the sky: "It has the charm of things which disappear. And I love it particularly...
...Brilliantly carved, the portrait-head vibrates with nearly fanatic spirituality," Hanfmann said. "It well expresses the spirit of transition from the Roman to the Christian world, when pagan philosophers and Christian saints shared an intensive quest of otherworldiness." Because the artists tried to portray the subject's inner life, scholars have described such works as soul-portraits...