Haruki Murakami's short fiction collection after the quake depicts the consequences of the Kobe earthquake of 1995.

More importantly, the movie depicts one of the battle's most decisive elements, the arrival of the Prussian army, rather superficially as they arrive to win the battle in short order: distant columns of Prussians are observed by the general staff of both armies, arriving on the battlefield at the very end of the day to change the outcome with a single blow.

His short story " The Crooked Man " ( also published by Playboy, in 1955 ) presented a dystopian future scenario wherein heterosexuality is stigmatized in the same way that homosexuality then was, and depicts heterosexuals living as furtively as pre-Stonewall gays and lesbians.

It depicts the Machiavellian rise to power and subsequent short reign of Richard III of England.

Isaac Asimov's 1955 short story The Message depicts a time-travelling George Kilroy from the thirtieth century as the writer of the graffiti.

* The Homelands This short interlude depicts the decimated plane of Ulgrotha, in which many civilizations struggle for power against Baron Sengir, a powerful vampire who has manipulated a number of other characters into serving his ends.

* William Bilowit's acclaimed 1974 6-minute short Aria da Capo depicts two teenage girls chasing a young man from one end of the ferry to the other.

The film is a drama which was based on the short stories We Don't Live Here Anymore and Adultery by Andre Dubus, and depicts the crisis of two married couples.

The station's motto Icarus Renatus means Icarus Reborn and relates to the short period when the station was under ' care and maintenance ' and then re-activated ; the badge depicts a white crane superimposed over a maple leaf.

The short apparently depicts their initial encounter.

Delany's Nebula-winning short story " Aye, and Gomorrah " posits the development of neutered human astronauts and then depicts the people who become sexually oriented toward them.

A science fiction short story published in 1971 by Sir Arthur C. Clarke, called " Transit of Earth ", depicts a doomed astronaut on Mars observing the transit in 1984.

: A collection of short stories about the early life of young Jeremiah and his truck-stop prostitute mother Sarah, which depicts drug abuse, child sexual abuse and physical child abuse.

A lovely and locally famous cherry orchard stood on the farm of family friends where he spent childhood vacations, and in his early short story " Steppe ", Chekhov depicts a young boy crossing the Ukraine amidst fields of cherry blossoms.

The advertisement depicts a black man of African origin dressed in ' preppy ' American style, with a short haircut and cleanshaven face, apparently holding his own severed head which has an unkempt afro hairstyle and ungroomed facial hair.

Semyon Reznik targets the Russophobia essay for its factual inaccuracies, and argues that Shafarevich depicts the murder of Tsar Nicholas II as an example of Jewish ritual murder, and further notes that Shafarevich has assigned Jewish ethnicity to a number of non-Jewish individuals involved in the execution and perpetuates the false claims of graffiti in Yiddish at the murder site, Aron Katsenelinboigen, on the other hand, stated that while there are multiple antisemitic claims in Shafarevich's writings, he stops short of claiming blood libel.

His other book of short stories, The Little Gold Mine is written in much the same vein but depicts in novel style the people of North Staffordshire and the kind of lives they lived in the 1950s and 60s.

The third sketch depicts the Loverbirds themselves and a short, round extraterrestrial, all clothed.

The film is an eight-minute long black and white short that depicts a Spanish woman encountering a strange singing man in a coffee shop one morning.

Vernor Vinge's short story " The Ungoverned " depicts anarcho-capitalists defending against an invading government.

The short story " Conquest by Default " depicts an anarcho-capitalist alien race which prevents monopolistic groups via antitrust religious customs.

Bolian depicts Nancy as a strawberry-blond, but with the short tousled " Audrey Hepburn " hairstyle worn by many young women at the time, and tailored, preppy 1950s ensembles.

The film depicts the short lived life of the thirty-four year old Parker.

" Blackfire's Babysitter ", an animated short aired on May 12, 2012 depicts her as having quadruplets with the swamp alien she had attempted to force Starfire into marrying.

The Gospel of Luke depicts prayer as a certain feature in Jesus's life.

Cyberpunk depicts the world as a dark, sinister place with networked computers dominating every aspect of life.

This ambivalence appears to underlie his presentation of human history in Works and Days, where he depicts a golden period when life was easy and good, followed by a steady decline in behaviour and happiness through the silver, bronze and Iron Ages – except he inserts a heroic age between the last two, though representing its warlike men as better than their bronze predecessors.

In 1938's Le corsaire Privateer, a " play-in-a-play " device, pioneered by Luigi Pirandello, depicts film actors portraying the life of a long-ago pirate, finding themselves caught in an endless loop of similarities.

The Moses Window at the Washington National Cathedral depicts the three stages in Moses ' life.

Portrayal of " nerd girls ", in films such as She's Out of Control, Welcome to the Dollhouse and She's All That depicts that smart but nerdy women might suffer later in life if they do not focus on improving their physical attractiveness.

One of his most famous paintings is The Roses of Heliogabalus ( 1888 ) – based on an episode from the life of the debauched Roman Emperor Elagabalus ( Heliogabalus ), the painting depicts the psychopathic Emperor suffocating his guest at an orgy under a cascade of rose petals.

It depicts the six corporate acts of mercy — feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, clothing the naked, sheltering the homeless, visiting prisoners and the sick, and the inscription reads: " This window is sacred to the memory of Mary Anning of this parish, who died 9 March AD 1847 and is erected by the vicar and some members of the Geological Society of London in commemoration of her usefulness in furthering the science of geology, as also of her benevolence of heart and integrity of life.

Buffy is the protagonist of the story, and the series depicts her life and adventures as she grows up.

The play casts criticism on authoritarian religious leaders and also depicts the positive and colorful view of life and generous spirit of a character in the play, which is in stark contrast to that of another character, an authoritarian religious leader.

* The Agony and the Ecstasy, Irving Stone's novelization of Michelangelo's life, depicts the events in Florence from the Medici's point of view.

It covers the Flodden campaign of the Anglo-Scottish Wars and the finale depicts the battle which ended James IV's life.

The chorten depicts larger than life size images of tantric deities, with some 36 of them in erotic poses.

Both von Rauffenstein and de Boeldieu view their military service as a duty, and see the war as having a purpose ; as such, Renoir depicts them as laudable but tragic figures whose world is disappearing and who are trapped in a code of life that is rapidly becoming meaningless.

Although the book is unabashedly sentimental, it also depicts the sweeping social changes that Chips experiences throughout his life: he begins his tenure at Brookfield in 1870, as the Franco-Prussian War is breaking out and lies on his deathbed shortly after Adolf Hitler's rise to power.

" Arrival of the English Ambassadors " by Vittore Carpaccio, painted between 1495 and 1500 — though ostensibly part of a series of paintings on the life of Saint Ursula, this actually depicts the developing diplomatic practices of the Republic of Venice in the painter's own time

Painted in Nottingham, England around 1860 by John James Story ( d. 1900 ), it depicts the life and career of the great Italian patriot, Giuseppe Garibaldi ( 1807 – 1882 ).

Diana G. Gallagher's 2005 novel Spark and Burn depicts the struggling early-Season Seven Spike remembering an account of his life, amounting to a chronological character history of Spike's life from the 19th century to the time of the framing device.

The second chapter, " Paradise Lost ", depicts the couple's life on a colonised island and how they adapt to and are exploited by Western civilisation.

In 1511, Titian painted three scenes of Miracles from the life of Saint Anthony: The Miracle of the Jealous Husband, which depicts the murder of a young woman by her husband ; A Child Testifying to Its Mother's Innocence ; and The Saint Healing the Young Man with a Broken Limb.

In a judgment delivered in 1995, the Supreme Court of India ruled that " Ordinarily, Hindutva is understood as a way of life or a state of mind and is not to be equated with or understood as religious Hindu fundamentalism ... it is a fallacy and an error of law to proceed on the assumption ... that the use of words Hindutva or Hinduism per se depicts an attitude hostile to all persons practising any religion other than the Hindu religion ...

The other common representation depicts him crouching, holding a palm stem in each hand ( or just one ), sometimes with a palm stem in his hair, as palm stems represented long life to the Egyptians, the years being represented by notches on it.

In the poem " Vladimir Ilyich Lenin " ( 1924 ), Mayakovsky looks at the life and work at the leader of Russia's revolution and depicts them against a broad historical background.