We expected, in short, that most of the world would make itself over in our image and that it would be relatively simple, from such a position, to deal with the localized aberrations of the Soviet Union ''.

Yet actually `` the image corresponded in no way to the actualities of the post-war world.

It has been truly said that anything man can imagine he can produce or create by projecting this inner image into its counterpart in the objective world.

In their case, the god of this world ( Satan ) has blinded their unbelieving minds, that they should not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

The forms on earth, are imperfect imitations ( εικών, ikon: image ) of the celestial world of numbers.

There is a peaceful image of Rieux lying motionless on his back gazing up at the stars and moon, and then when Tarrou joins him they swim side by side, " with the same zest, the same rhythm, isolated from the world, at last free of the town and of the plague.

Strictly speaking, it refers to art unconcerned with the literal depiction of things from the visible world — it can, however, refer to an object or image which has been distilled from the real world, or indeed, another work of art.

The second image is that of the world text.

This image portrays the world as consisting of an enormous text which is as large as the universe itself.

According to the New American Bible, the image in Revelation 12: 1-6 of a pregnant woman in the sky, threatened by a dragon, " corresponds to a widespread myth throughout the ancient world that a goddess pregnant with a savior was pursued by a horrible monster ; by miraculous intervention, she bore a son who then killed the monster ".

The veneration of that classical past, particularly pre-Christian Rome, the new availability of Greek philosophical works, the successes of humanism and natural science along with the fragmentation of the Christian churches and increased understanding of other faiths, all helped erode the image of the church as the unique source of wisdom, destined to dominate the whole world.

The Death of Marat, 1793, became the leading image of the Terror and immortalized both Marat and David in the world of the revolution.

I was an instrument in a virtual world that constantly renewed its own meaningless image in a living world that was itself perceived outside of nature.

The world paid attention to their literary redefinition of Scottishness, as they forged an image largely based on characteristics in polar opposition to those associated with England and modernity.

One actually looks forward to the end of the world, arguing that it would mean that he would not be obliged to settle with his creditors ( see the image on the Ideology of Tintin page ).

Sherry Salman considers the image of the Horned God in Jungian terms, as an archetypal protector and mediator of the outside world to the objective psyche.

The image of these charismatic figures, often wandering among the people, became shaped by the Kabbalistic legend of the Lamed Vav Tzadikim ( 36 hidden righteous people who sustain the world ).

While initial enthusiasm for the Iranian revolution in the Muslim world was intense, it has waned as " purges, executions, and atrocities tarnished its image ".

The giant image was carved in 981 AD., by order of Chavundaraya, the minister of the Ganga King Rachamalla, and is considered the largest stone sculpture in the world.

The fact that ordinary father-son ( or grandfather-grandson ) succession did not occur has contributed to the image of the Julio-Claudian court presented in Robert Graves's I, Claudius, a dangerous world where scheming family members were all too ready to murder the direct heirs so as to bring themselves, their own immediate families, or their lovers closer to the succession.

Lindh's parents maintain that Pelton acquired footage that was prejudicial and manipulative, and that Pelton contributed to the poor image of their son by sharing the footage with the world community without context.

He reminds us that the Platonic writer Porphyry wrote in the 3rd century AD that the cave-like temple Mithraea depicted " an image of the world " and that Zoroaster consecrated a cave resembling the world fabricated by Mithras The ceiling of the Caesarea Maritima Mithraeum retains traces of blue paint, which may mean the ceiling was painted to depict the sky and the stars.

A word taken in its dictionary meaning, a photographic image of a recognizable object, the mere picturing of a `` scene '' tends to lose experiential vividness and to connote such conventional abstractions as to invite neutral reception without the incitement of value feelings.

Defining cultural groups, such as the Ancient Pueblo peoples, tends to create an image of territories separated by clear-cut boundaries, like border boundaries separating modern states.

This version of rasterization has overtaken the old method as it allows the graphics to flow without complicated textures ( a rasterized image when used face by face tends to have a very block-like effect if not covered in complex textures ; the faces are not smooth because there is no gradual color change from one primitive to the next ).

Because intermediates only function to maintain the image information accurately across duplication, each manufacturer tends to only produce one or two different intermediate stocks.

Although fighting games offer female characters, their image tends to be hyperfeminized, and they have even been featured as pin-up girls in game magazines.

Motion blurring mitigates this effect, since it tends to reduce the image gap when the two frames are strung together.

The DCT, and in particular the DCT-II, is often used in signal and image processing, especially for lossy data compression, because it has a strong " energy compaction " property ( Ahmed, Natarajan and Rao, 1974 ; Rao and Yip, 1990 ): most of the signal information tends to be concentrated in a few low-frequency components of the DCT, approaching the Karhunen-Loève transform ( which is optimal in the decorrelation sense ) for signals based on certain limits of Markov processes.

The production of multiple copies also tends to reduce production costs and market price when compared to a single or unique image.

The spiral converges to the centre of the holes in the image as t tends to positive or negative infinity.

Power tends to confuse itself with virtue and a great nation is particularly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor, conferring upon it a special responsibility for other nations — to make them richer and happier and wiser, to remake them, that is, in its own shining image.

The image tends to be artistic, examples include Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly delights to a picture of Barack Obama titled ' World's No 1 ' Terrorist '

If a higher resolution is used, the cache coherence goes down, and the aliasing is increased in one direction, but the image tends to be clearer.

However, it tends to flare in bright light, causing a dark halo to be seen around the object ; this anomaly is referred to as " blooming " in the broadcast industry when image orthicon tubes were in operation.

Her image also tends to the contemporary and Western: In most of her videos both she and her dancers wear modern dress, and one album cover, Mor lam sa on 8, was an imitation of Beyoncé's Dangerously in Love.

In essence, any unfavorable image developed by a group of universities, associated by country, tends to harm their collective rankings.

The image sensor used in digital point-and-shoots tends to be smaller than their DSLR counterparts, but might be have larger sensor than Four Thirds system sensor.

Although this method doesn't generate patterned artifacts, the noise tends to swamp the detail of the image.

The image of a good man, gentle and friendly in part agreed to adopt that Bandeira, at the end of his life, tends to produce errors: his poetry, far from being a little sweet song of melancholy, is enrolled in a drama that combines his personal history and conflict stylistic lived by the poets of his time.

An image filled with strong vertical lines tends to have the impression of height, and grandeur.

The other type is a negative afterimage, meaning that the colors of the original image are inverted, which tends to last comparatively longer.

Unfortunately, he tends to be a little too attached to his image and likes to cover up the parts of him that make him look like less than what he makes himself out to be.