He earned fame for his heroic performance in the border war with Mali, but years later would renounce the war as " useless and unjust ", a reflection of his growing political consciousness.

' It was a project several years in the making ; what started as an upbeat reflection on fame and the notion of being a fan, developed into a meditation on the communication between two people and coping with the blows life deals.

His down-time in Italy did afford Franchi some valuable reflection time, some considerable new fame ( Ed Sullivan traveled to Italy to interview his friend Sergio Franchi and Virna Lisi ), and Franchi returned from the five months filming in Anticoli Corrado, Italy ready to make some changes in his life.

Another interpretation is that the portrait is in fact a mirror, and that the painting itself is in the perspective of the King and Queen, hence their reflection can be seen in the mirror on the back wall.

Leo Steinberg suggests that the King and Queen are to the left of the viewer and the reflection in the mirror is that of the canvas, a portrait of the King and Queen.

While it is a literal reflection of the king and queen, Snyder writes " it is the image of exemplary monarchs, a reflection of ideal character " Later he focuses his attention on the princess, writing that Velazquez's portrait is " the painted equivalent of a manual for the education of the princess — a mirror of the princess "

In a reflection of its Catholic heritage, St Edmund's portrait collection only contains images of Catholic monarchs.

This Halloween greeting card from 1904 satirises divination: the young woman hoping to see her future husband sees the reflection of a nearby portrait instead.

( That corpus of law was a reflection of the power system in existence during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

`` Tact '', by its very derivation, implies that its possessor keeps in touch with other people, but the author of Clericis Laicos and Unam Sanctam, the wielder of the two swords, the papal sun of which the imperial moon was but a dim reflection, the peer of Caesar and vice-regent of Christ, was so high above other human beings that he had forgotten what they were like.

In the eyes of those who still cared for such things, it was a reflection on his honor, and it gave further grounds for complaint to his overtaxed subjects, who were already grumbling -- although probably not in Latin -- `` Non est lex sana Quod regi sit mea lana ''.

Adams was not breaking new ground when he claimed that the worship of an unseen power was in reality a reflection of man's inability to cope with his environment.

There was a short pause for reflection.

National identification was reflected jurisprudentially in law theories which incorporated this Hegelian abstraction and saw law, domestic and international, simply as its formal reflection.

A formulaic element need not be held meaningless merely because it was selected with little conscious reflection.

That meant that something between the light and its reflection on the wall was moving closer to the source of the light -- in this case, the window.

He saw himself in a superior reflection, and he was as a speeding arrow from the taut bow, hurtling with a mad grace, his maleness shining and scented with meadow rue.

Whether this was a reflection of his age or of the fact that Christie was by now heartily sick of him it is difficult to assess.

A 4 – 1 result was a fair reflection as England were left shell shocked.

In a culture that set a high value on oratory and public performances of all kinds, in which the production of books was very labor-intensive, the majority of the population was illiterate, and where those with the leisure to enjoy literary works also had slaves to read for them, written texts were more likely to be seen as scripts for recitation than as vehicles of silent reflection.

The name was also changed to Atlantic Baptist University, a reflection of expanded student enrollment and academic accreditation.

The post-war period was an age of reflection on the war, and the emergence of a competing medium, the television.

Treatment of eschatology continued in the West in the teachings of Tertullian ( c. 160 – 225 ), and was given fuller reflection and speculation soon after by Origen ( c. 185 – 254 ).

1733 ), which may have been his first attempt, was followed by half-length compositions of children saying grace, as in Le Bénédicité, and kitchen maids in moments of reflection.

However, this rule did not allow such suits to bind similarly situated absent parties, which rendered the rule almost entirely useless and was a direct reflection of Story's inability to understand the old English Chancery precedents.

Another major conflict was between the Alexandrian and Antiochian schools of ecclesiastical reflection, piety, and discourse.

The birth of the new discipline was not without controversy, the practical dictionary-makers being sometimes accused of " astonishing " lack of method and critical-self reflection.

As was observed after other disasters involving destruction and loss of life and their media depictions, such as those of the 2001 World Trade Center Attacks or Hurricane Katrina — and has been recently observed in the 2010 Haiti earthquake, it is also important not to pathologize the reactions to loss and displacement or disruption of governmental administration and services, but rather to validate these reactions, to support constructive problem-solving and reflection as to how one might improve the conditions of those affected.

In a later reflection, Jaki states that it is wrong to say that a final theory is impossible, but rather that " when it is on hand one cannot know rigorously that it is a final theory.

Second, later researchers found that the Protestant – Catholic differences in suicide seemed to be limited to German-speaking Europe and thus may always have been the spurious reflection of other factors.

The most popular version of the Echo / Narcissus story depicts that Narcissus later came to a still pool, and caught sight of his own reflection.

The later theory of light by Isaac Newton in his Opticks proposed a different explanation for reflection, refraction and interference of light assuming the existence of light particles.

His original bookend scenes — in which Ricky and Jane are prosecuted for Lester's murder after being framed by Col. Fitts — were excised in post-production ; the writer later felt the scenes were unnecessary, saying they were a reflection of his " anger and cynicism " at the time of writing ( see " Editing ").

Media critics and cable news executives later cited the Levy case, as well as the concurrent sensationalist coverage of a string of shark attacks, as a reflection of the manner of news coverage in the United States before the September 11 attacks had taken priority.

After reflection, however, Marsh changed his mind and gave it the generic name Triceratops, accepting his Bison alticornis as another species of Ceratops ( it would later be added to Triceratops ).

This reconstruction, by Prof. ( later Sir ) Arthur Keith, was called Homo piltdownensis in reflection of its more human appearance.

It was nearly 1000 years later that Alhacen expanded the principle to both reflection and refraction, and the principle was later stated in this form by Pierre de Fermat in 1662 ; the most modern form is that the path is at an extremum.

Years later, in the Colosseum, a Charun-like figure called Dispater would hit the loser with a hammer to make sure he was dead, perhaps in reflection of Charun.

Ulrich Khuon, the theatre manager, later admitted to being surprised by the protest and is now in a process of reflection.

" Sweet Duck of Youth ", an episode of the later animated series Duck Tales, also features this plotline, revealing that the fountain's true power is actually to make one's reflection appear younger ( thus the ' youth ' is merely an illusion ).

" Merchant's anger is later replaced with quiet reflection, asking, " It was such a nightmare raving, ' How could we save him from himself?

On later reflection, Drake didn't like the integrity of the idea and dismissed it.

The rope stretchers of ancient Egypt stretched corded ropes between two points to measure the path which minimized the distance of separation, and Claudius Ptolemy, in his Geographia ( Bk 1, Ch 2 ), emphasized that one must correct for " deviations from a straight course "; in ancient Greece Euclid states in his Catoptrica that, for the path of light reflecting from a mirror, the angle of incidence equals the angle of reflection ; and Hero of Alexandria later showed that this path was the shortest length and least time.

In one lecture, published later in one of his books, Tyndall demonstrated the propagation of light down through a stream of falling water via total internal reflection of the light.

He later confessed that the story was " a reflection of my own life ", and, when the critic Georg Brandes questioned Andersen about whether he would write his autobiography, the poet claimed that it had already been written — " The Ugly Duckling ".

This might seem strange — the solution goes from being localized at one point to being " everywhere " at all later times, but it is a reflection of the enormous momentum uncertainty of a localized particle.

In a statement later issued to CNN, Pryce said: " What's happening in Iraq is not a direct reflection on me.

Steyn later wrote a lengthy reflection of his turmoil with the commissions and the tribunals.

Grant later added " Each album is a journey and a reflection of the past, there is some stuff that touches on what has happened, but there are songs about love, songs of loss and songs about the future.

A reflection arriving later than 1 ms after the direct sound increases the perceived level and spaciousness ( more precisely the perceived width of the sound source ).