As Origen interprets the end of history on the basis of its beginning, so Irenaeus portrays the story of Adam on the basis of the story of Christ.

Dilbert portrays corporate culture as a Kafkaesque world of bureaucracy for its own sake and office politics that stand in the way of productivity, where employees ' skills and efforts are not rewarded, and busy work is praised.

Ahead of its release, RCA's Mel Ilberman stated, " It would be fair to call it Bowie's Sergeant Pepper [...] a concept album that portrays the Lodger as a homeless wanderer, shunned and victimized by life's pressures and technology.

The history of Gibraltar portrays how The Rock gained an importance and a reputation far exceeding its size, influencing and shaping the people who came to reside here over the centuries.

It not only evokes the atmosphere of horror and dread, but also portrays the deterioration of its world.

They all believe that, as a consequence, the film portrays 1st century Judea more accurately than actual Biblical epics, with its focus centred more on the average person of the era.

Gene Hackman portrays Lex Luthor in the 1978 Superman film, along with two of its sequels, Superman II ( 1980 ) and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace ( 1987 ).

Also in 2010, Herzog's documentary Happy People: A Year in the Taiga, which portrays the life of an indigenous tribe from the Siberian part of the Taiga, had its premiere at the 2010 Telluride Film Festival.

Although Carroll accurately portrays the biological walrus's appetite for bivalve mollusks, oysters, primarily nearshore and intertidal inhabitants, in fact comprise an insignificant portion of its diet, even in captivity.

" Edward Kessler writes that Hebrew Bible " portrays an encounter with a God who cares passionately and who addresses humanity in the quiet moments of its existence.

In recent times, the hit TV sitcom, The Big Bang Theory portrays one of its main characters, Dr. Sheldon Cooper as a man whose birthplace is Galveston, Texas.

Because of this, even the Japanese word for " slaughter " ( 屠殺 tosatsu ) is deemed politically incorrect by some pressure groups as its inclusion of the kanji for " kill " ( 殺 ) supposedly portrays those who practice it in a negative manner.

In his poems, Solon portrays Athens as being under threat from the unrestrained greed and arrogance of its citizens.

Banks portrays the cult largely sympathetically, especially given its publication just after the Waco Siege in 1993 ( which Yolanda discusses within the novel ).

Though the ROC no longer portrays itself as the sole legitimate government of China, the position of the PRC remained unchanged until the early 2000s, when the PRC began to soften its position on this issue to promote Chinese reunification.

( The Gospel of John, which is the only gospel where Nicodemus is mentioned, particularly portrays the sect as divided and willing to debate ) Because of the New Testament's frequent depictions of Pharisees as self-righteous rule-followers ( see also Woes of the Pharisees and Legalism ( theology )), the word " pharisee " ( and its derivatives: " pharisaical ", etc.

After its initial airing, " Encounter " triggered complaints from Japanese-Americans due to the backstory of the character played by Takei: he portrays a Nisei ( the U. S .- born son of Japanese immigrants ) whose father spied for the Japanese navy during the Pearl Harbor attack.

One of its beautiful stained-glass windows portrays the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden at the top of the window, and, in parallel, the parable of the good Samaritan at the bottom.

Francis Watt, writing in the Juridicial Review, portrays this as his strongest characteristic as a lawyer ; that he was a man who " having once taken up a point or become engaged in a case, believes in it with all his heart and soul, whilst all the time conscious of its weakness, as well as ready to resort to every device to bolster it up ".

A 2006 Spanish movie, Alatriste, directed by Agustín Díaz Yanes, portrays this battle in its final scene.

This work is the earliest surviving detailed contemporary report of an English state-trial ; some have doubted its authenticity, however, claiming St-Calais would not have been as knowledgeable in canon law as the work portrays him.

" This device often portrays its users as overcome with passion ( fear, anger, excitement ) or modesty.

The newest book, World and Town, portrays a fragile America, its small towns challenged by globalization, development, fundamentalism, and immigration, as well as the ripples sent out by 9 / 11.

Theatre historian Don Wilmeth noted Gray's contribution to a unique style of writing and acting: " The 1980s saw the rise of the autobiographical monologue, its leading practitioner Spalding Gray, the WASP from Rhode Island who portrays himself as an innocent abroad in a crazy contemporary world.

Marlowe's play Doctor Faustus portrays the eponymous character as a scholar whose arrogance and pride compel him to sign a deal with the devil, and retain his haughtiness until his death and damnation, despite the fact that he could have easily repented had he chosen to do so.

From contemporary accounts, we know it made a great impression on him, and in Don Giovanni, the most memorable scene portrays the unrepentant anti-hero being dragged down to the underworld.

A fascinating, but ironic, fact about this epic is that it portrays Madhavi, Kovalan's amorous lover, as an equally chaste woman.

Jones portrays a masked gentleman known as " The Scarecrow ," who travels at night on horseback with three others and returns home to Sussex, an ordinary family man.

The Swordmaster in Alain Ayrole's and Jean-Luc Masbou's French comic book De cape et de crocs portrays a colorful gentleman living on the Moon, at ease either with a sword or with a sonnet, and using both to silence those foolish enough to mock his prominent nose.

In his 2000 book, The Informant, Kurt Eichenwald, a former New York Times reporter, portrays Whitacre as a complex figure: while working for the FBI as one of the best and most effective undercover cooperating witnesses the U. S. government ever had, Whitacre was simultaneously committing a US $ 9 million white-collar crime.

Though Boccaccio portrays many of the women of these stories in a positive light, most of the men in the stories are stereotypical medieval / Renaissance cuckolds.

The most significant difference between the plot and the historical events is the scene that replaces an incident where the captain threw almost all the submarine's small arms overboard out of concern about the possibility of a mutiny ; the film instead portrays an actual attempt at mutiny.

This, like much of the utopian literature, can be seen as utopian satire which is most notable in the inversion of illness and crime which Butler portrays, with punishment for the former and treatment for the latter.

Set in the 80s and 90s zine heyday, Walking Man by Tim W. Brown is a comic novel written in the form of a scandalous tell-all biography that portrays the life and times of Brian Walker, publisher of the zine Walking Man, who rises from humble origins to become the most famous zinester in America.

Kooman's book portrays Fanny Blankers-Koen in a different light, a woman who found it difficult to show affection and most of all always wanted to win.

Actor David Watson portrays Cornelius through most of the film.

* Ron MacLean-the host of Hockey Night in Canada has appeared on Air Farce in several sketches, most notably one in which he portrays himself alongside Goy ( as the Queen who is impersonating Don Cherry ).

* Brian Williams-then-CBC Sports anchor who has made several appearances on Air Farce, most memorably in which he portrays himself locked in his studio at the conclusion of the 2000 Olympic Games.

The most famous treatment of the alternative universe concept in film could be considered The Wizard of Oz, which portrays a parallel world, famously separating the magical realm of the Land of Oz from the mundane world by filming it in Technicolor while filming the scenes set in Kansas in sepia.

Sordi also succeeded in dramatic roles, most notably in 1977's Un borghese piccolo piccolo ( An Average Little Man ) in which he portrays an elderly whose son is killed in an armed robbery, and sets out to exact revenge.

The inclusion of this scene portrays him in a much more sinister light ; most productions, including Laurence Olivier's famous 1948 film version, choose to remove it.

The movie portrays Mong Kok, one of the most densely populated places on Earth, as a hotbed of illicit activity.

Possibly the most adept at musical depiction in his program music was the German composer Richard Strauss, whose symphonic poems include Death and Transfiguration ( portraying a dying man and his entry into heaven ), Don Juan ( based on the ancient legend of Don Juan ), Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks ( based on episodes in the career of the legendary German figure Till Eulenspiegel ), Don Quixote ( portraying episodes in the life of Miguel de Cervantes ' character, Don Quixote ), A Hero's Life ( which depicts episodes in the life of an unnamed hero often taken to be Strauss himself ) and Symphonia Domestica ( which portrays episodes in the composer's own married life, including putting the baby to bed ).

Fellow novelist Philip Gambone wrote of his work, " What is most impressive in Bram's fiction is the psychological and emotional accuracy with which he portrays his characters.

Chris Carmack portrays Luke Ward, Marissa's first boyfriend and regular cast member for most of the first season.

Marriage to a half-sister, for example, is considered incest by most nations today, but was common behaviour for Egyptian pharaohs ; similarly, the Book of Genesis portrays Sarah as marrying Abraham, her half-brother, without criticising the close genetic relationship between them, and the Book of Samuel treats the marriage of a royal prince to his sister as unusual, rather than wicked.

For the most part, Takayuki's Japanese voice actor portrays him as severely emotionally numbed ( dissociated ), consistent with PTSD ( one of the major themes ).

The film is a drama that portrays the story of Lindy Chamberlain, who was convicted ( in 1982 ) of killing her baby daughter, Azaria, in one of Australia's most publicized murder trials.

" " Mainstream is more than the sum of all cross-currents and sub-currents, it represents the broadest range of shared meanings and assumptions in the most general, functional and stable way Heavy television viewing may override individual differences and perspectives, creating more of an American ( and increasingly global ) " melting pot " of social, cultural and political ideologies Essentially, the more TV a viewer watches, the more likely it becomes that their opinions of various items in the world will start to mirror those the media portrays.

Lane Smith portrays Emmett Seaborn, a seasoned reporter for a fictional television network who covers the U. S. space program from its earliest days, providing continuity for most of the episodes.

The site portrays 150 years and four generations of one of the most influential political families in the periods of the Republic of Texas and early statehood.

In several of his novels ( most notably The Case of the Vanishing Boy ) Key portrays some sort of communal withdrawal from society by a group of like-minded individuals.