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images and themselves
He leaned his head against the wood paneling behind him, but the vivid red images of pain inserted themselves against his eyelids.
The Aeginetans at first contented themselves with sending the images of the Aeacidae, the tutelary heroes of their island.
His plays offered his contemporaries images of themselves, often dramatizing the lives, values, and conflicts of the emerging middle classes.
Early Christians found themselves confronted with a set of new concepts and ideas relating to the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, as well the notions of salvation and redemption, and had to use a new set of terms, images and ideas to deal with them.
Both used images of ordinary objects, or the objects themselves, in their work, while retaining the abstraction and painterly gestures of high modernism.
Most stereoisomers are themselves chiral ( distinct from their mirror images ).
Some argue that images of the presidency have a tendency to be manipulated by administration public relations officials as well as by presidents themselves.
Benjamin Disraeli and William Ewart Gladstone developed this new role further by projecting " images " of themselves to the public.
Records themselves became an art form because of the large surface onto which graphics and books could be printed, and records could be molded into unusual shapes, colors, or with images ( picture discs ).
Explaining reason from this direction: human thinking is special in the way that we often understand visible things as if they were themselves images of our intelligible " objects of thought " as " foundations " ( hypothēses in Ancient Greek ).
These are objects that can be evacuated or used for a kind of thinking that depends on manipulation of what are felt to be things in themselves as if to substitute such manipulations for words or ideas ... Alpha-function transforms sense impressions into alpha-elements which resemble, and may in fact be identical with, the visual images with which we are familiar in dreams, namely, the elements that Freud regards as yielding their latent content when the analyst has interpreted them.
Bissell adds that Boba Fett, along with other minor characters like Darth Maul and Kyle Katarn, appeals to adolescent boys ' " images of themselves: essentially bad-ass but ... honorable about it.
< p > At deeper levels, drug users may regress to childhood as they relive their memories, or they may project themselves into the series of dreamlike images before their closed eyelids and become the protagonists of symbolic dramas enacted for the mind's eye.
Also, the media are oftentimes blamed for the rise in the incidence of eating disorders due to the fact that media images of idealized slim physical shape of people such as models and celebrities motivate or even force people to attempt to achieve slimness themselves.
The novel is an exploration of how meaning is created, whether that be written via words ( by the author, via the book, since the characters in the book cannot speak to each other ) or by images ( the tarot cards — considered prophetic to some and are themselves open to many symbolic interpretations ).
Instead, Viking bands limit themselves mainly to the use of Norse mythology as a textual source, which they often augment with stylized shanty-like melodies that are meant to evoke apropos images.
On June 21, 2012, espnW projected a digital mosaic featuring the largest-ever collection of women and girls ’ sports images ( all of which were submitted by the athletes themselves ) onto the First Amendment tablet of the Newseum in Washington, D. C.
In fact, it was around 1958-59 that Baj and Rotella abandoned their previous careers – which might be generically defined as a non-representational genre despite being run through with post-Dadaism – to catapult themselves into a new world of images and the reflections on them which was springing up all around them.
Cubist paintings share characteristics with sequential art, with the main difference being that the images are not juxtaposed but repeated over themselves in different poses sharing some shapes.
Rothko, Gottlieb, and Newman read and discussed the works of Freud and Jung, in particular their theories concerning dreams and the archetypes of the collective unconscious, and understood mythological symbols as images that refer to themselves, operating in a space of human consciousness that transcends specific history and culture.
" As cited by von Franz, according to Jung, " Archetypes ... manifest themselves only through their ability to organize images and ideas, and this is always an unconscious process which cannot be detected until afterwards.
Astrophotographic hardware among non-professional astronomers varies widely, since the photographers themselves range from general photographers shooting some form of aesthetically pleasing images to very serious amateur astronomers collecting data for scientific research.
The shaman would retreat into the darkness of the caves, enter into a trance state and then paint images of their visions, perhaps with some notion of drawing power out of the cave walls themselves.
He asserts that in these representations, ' primitive ' people's " mental activity is too little differentiated for it to be possible to consider ideas or images of objects by themselves apart from the emotions and passions which evoke those ideas or are evoked by them.

images and like
Going, he saw as often before some queer, hideous yellow face over his head, shining and weird like the old images which had invested him at other times like those that appear sometimes near the eyeballs when they are perhaps pressed by the thumbs.
Thus, a single " rule ," like mapping every real number x to x < sup > 2 </ sup >, can lead to distinct functions and, depending on whether the images under that rule are understood to be reals or, more restrictively, non-negative reals.
Other images ( like the Hubble Deep Field – not pictured ) detect far more stars.
Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
The images and catch phrases adorn a wide range of people from the rank and file to tattoo artists like Dan Henk.
The earliest written records of Christian images treated like icons in a pagan or Gnostic context are offered by the 4th-century Christian Aelius Lampridius in the Life of Alexander Severus ( xxix ) that was part of the Augustan History.
In Exodus, God commanded that the Israelites not make any graven image ; but soon afterwards, he commanded that they make graven images of cherubim and other like things, both as statues and woven on tapestries.
... we decree with full precision and care that, like the figure of the honoured and life-giving cross, the revered and holy images, whether painted or made of mosaic or of other suitable material, are to be exposed in the holy churches of God, on sacred instruments and vestments, on walls and panels, in houses and by public ways ; these are the images of our Lord, God and saviour, Jesus Christ, and of our Lady without blemish, the holy God-bearer, and of the revered angels and of any of the saintly holy men.
At this moment he was unfortunately called out by a person on business from Porlock, and detained by him above an hour, and on his return to his room, found, to his no small surprise and mortification, that though he still retained some vague and dim recollection of the general purport of the vision, yet, with the exception of some eight or ten scattered lines and images, all the rest had passed away like the images on the surface of a stream into which a stone had been cast, but, alas!
The rhythm of the poem, like its themes and images, is different from other poems Coleridge wrote during the time, and it is organised in a structure similar to 18th-century odes.
The passage continues with a famous account of an interruption: " At this moment he was unfortunately called out by a person on business from Porlock, and detained by him above an hour, and on his return to his room, found, to his no small surprise and mortification, that though he still retained some vague and dim recollection of the general purpose of the vision, yet, with the exception of some eight or ten scattered lines and images, all the rest had passed away like the images on the surface of a stream into which a stone has been cast, but, alas!
In ' Kubla Khan ' the linked and interweaving images irresponsibly and gloriously stream, like the pulsing, fluctuating banners of the North.
The images provide the only evidence for the action so it is more well received that it was much like today's long jump.
Software packages can extend the concept of mind mapping by allowing individuals to map more than thoughts and ideas with information on their computers and the internet, like spreadsheets, documents, internet sites and images.
The other triose, the aldose H ( C = O )( CHOH )< sub > 2 </ sub > H ( glyceraldehyde ), has one chiral carbon — the central one, number 2 — which is bonded to groups-H ,-OH ,-C ( OH ) H < sub > 2 </ sub >, and -( C = O ) H. Therefore, it exists as two stereoisomers whose molecules are mirror images of each other ( like a left and a right glove ).
Huygens's device was even referred to as the " lantern of fright " because it was able to project spooky images that looked like apparitions.
Panoramic format images can be taken with cameras like the Hasselblad Xpan on standard film.
In early optical images, quasars looked like single points of light ( i. e., point sources ), indistinguishable from stars, except for their peculiar spectra.
This makes ray tracing best suited for applications where the image can be rendered slowly ahead of time, such as in still images and film and television visual effects, and more poorly suited for real-time applications like video games where speed is critical.
Of course, the actual format used for the storage of images is generally binary rather than ASCII characters like this, but the principle remains the same.

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