The Battle of the Nile remains one of the Royal Navy's most famous victories, and has remained prominent in the British popular imagination, sustained by its depiction in a large number of cartoons, paintings, poems and plays.

In the Fujian region of China, for example, a popular depiction of Guanyin is as a maiden dressed in Tang Dynasty style clothing carrying a fish basket.

Dreiser was often forced to battle against censorship because his depiction of some aspects of life, such as sexual promiscuity, offended authorities and challenged popular opinion.

This depiction is also common in popular culture.

In popular culture, the adapted, or " semi-classical ", Bharatanatyam has been exposed largely through depiction in popular movies and TV programs.

In addition to a series of cartoons based on his popular " rarebit " gags, McCay also created The Sinking of the Lusitania, a depiction of the attack on the maritime ship.

There is a wide variety of secondary sources of information, but they must be treated with caution: the popular, romanticised view of Hereward often has little basis in the medieval sources, owing more to the fictional depiction by Charles Kingsley and later authors.

Long's attacks on the utilities industry and corporate privileges were enormously popular, as was his depiction of the wealthy as " parasites " who grabbed more than their fair share of the public wealth while marginalizing the poor.

The spread of Hogarth's prints throughout Europe, together with the depiction of popular scenes from his prints in faked Hogarth prints, influenced Continental book illustration through the 18th and early 19th century, especially in Germany and France.

A modern stereotype | stereotypical depiction of a leprechaun of the type popular culture | popularised in the 20th century.

The vignettes became popular because of their cultural depiction of Canada, and because they represented its changing state.

After a big slump in tourism beginning from approximately 1929 and lasting after World War II, Italy returned to its status as a popular resort, with the Italian economic miracle and raised living standards ; films such as La Dolce Vita were successful abroad, and their depiction of the country's perceivedly idyllic life helped raise Italy's international profile.

* A popular depiction of a leather glove in fiction is the use of such a glove by Anakin Skywalker in the Star Wars movies.

It depicts the Second Coming, which is a popular and typical depiction in Romanesque art.

The rise in popularity has been linked with the real-life development of the atomic bomb in 1945 and subsequent nuclear testing in the 1950s ; the fear of annihilation paralleling its depiction in popular media.

The joust became an iconic characteristic of the knight in Romantic medievalism and hence in the depiction of the Middle Ages in popular culture.

The character of Ruri was unexpectedly a favourite, and became popular among fans as a depiction of the moe ideal.

Perhaps the most memorable popular depiction of the Montenegrin Mountain Hound ( then called Yugoslavian Mountain Hound ) had been as the hand puppet " Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog ", regularly appearing on the NBC television show Late Night with Conan O ' Brien.

It was not staged in its original form until the early 20th century, but since then, it has become increasingly popular, especially after the First World War, owing to its cynical depiction of immorality and disillusionment.

It was a political and social classic, widely read and long popular in England after its 1598 translation ; read by Elizabeth I of England, it was also known by Shakespeare, who used his depiction of an incompetent senator as a model for Polonius in Hamlet.

When Lone Wolf and Cub was first released in Japan in 1970, it became wildly popular ( some 8 million copies were sold in Japan ) for its powerful, epic samurai story and its stark and gruesome depiction of violence during Tokugawa era Japan.

Wraith: The Oblivion has been described as the most artistically consistent of the World of Darkness series line ( due to its rich depiction of the afterlife and steadfast dedication to thematic integrity ), but also is the least commercially popular.

The monument features a depiction of Kit Carson and marks the end of the Smoky Hill Trail, a popular route to Colorado taken by frontiers in search of gold located near the Smoky Hill River.

His report was unusual in its detailed depiction of a non-European culture.

As people from the English countryside immigrated to America, they brought elements of English folklore with them, and this particular depiction of elves then evolved in America into the Christmas elves of pop culture.

Fab 5 Freddy's friendship with Debbie Harry influenced Blondie's single " Rapture " ( Chrysalis, 1981 ), the video of which featured Jean-Michel Basquiat, and offered many their first glimpse of a depiction of elements of graffiti in hip hop culture.

More broadly the term is used in a wide number of contexts for an image, picture, or representation ; it is a sign or likeness that stands for an object by signifying or representing it either concretely or by analogy, as in semiotics ; by extension, icon is also used, particularly in modern culture, in the general sense of symbol — i. e. a name, face, picture, edifice or even a person readily recognized as having some well-known significance or embodying certain qualities: one thing, an image or depiction, that represents something else of greater significance through literal or figurative meaning, usually associated with religious, cultural, political, or economic standing.

The earliest depiction of dragons was found at Xinglongwa culture sites.

In the later sixties, perhaps due to the depiction in films of hippie culture, the term was used much less specifically to mean any gathering of interest, from a pool hall meetup or a jamming of a few young people to a beer blast or fancy formal party.

) The Beach Boys devoted the three parts of their California Saga on the band's 1973 album Holland to a nostalgic depiction of the rugged wilderness in the area and the culture of its inhabitants.

As the Excalabians were reading Kirk and Spock ’ s thought patterns, Kahless ’ s depiction here was generally assumed by fans to be based solely on Kirk ’ s limited and heavily biased knowledge of Klingon culture.

In 1936, Césaire began work on his long poem " Cahier d ' un retour au pays natal ", a vivid and powerful depiction of the ambiguities of Caribbean life and culture in the New World and this upon returning home to Martinique.

Some commentators, such as Peter Obst and Lawrence Weschler, expressed concern over the Poles ' depiction as pigs — a much greater insult in Polish culture than in American culture.

As Balinese Hindu culture does not restrict the depiction of images, the Balinese have traditionally focused more on sculpture and painting than on textiles.

Hallstatt culture depiction of Illyrian warriors: reproduction of the bronze Vače belt-plate found in Vače, Slovenia, and dated to the 5th century BC.

It is necessary to understand the depiction of 12 stars on our state flag as a symbol of the antiquity of the culture of the Uzbek people, its maturity and the striving for happiness in its land.

Those seeking the preservation of East German culture banded together to save Ossie Crosswalk Man ( Ost-Ampelmännchen ), an illuminated depiction of a fedora wearing man in crosswalk lights.

Also present is the frequent theme of moral outrage at the amount of sex in popular culture, beginning with a depiction of women's undergarments reproduced from a Sears catalogue, then extending to jazz music ( also thought to have sunk the Titanic ), and culminating in " Hippies Celebrate Fuck Summer ' 67 ".

The knight-errant stock character became the trope of the " knight in shining armour " in depiction of the Middle Ages in popular culture, and the term came to be used also outside of medieval drama, as in e. g. The Dark Knight as a title of Batman.

Popular culture researcher Abe Brown notes that " As Waltari's book was written during the Second World War, Suppiluliuma's depiction is likely to be at least in part inspired by Hitler rather than by historical facts.

It can be read simultaneously as an unusual, charming love story, a description of the political and social forces at work in 1920s Brazil, a somewhat satirical depiction of Latin American aspirations to " modernity ", and a celebration of the local culture and pleasures of Bahia.

Parts of the culture also seem to have been based on E. Nesbit's depiction of Babylon ( such as " Tisroc " as the name of the ruler, and appending " may he live forever " to mentions of this king ).