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The picture is the more treacherous when it misrepresents the facts of American life.
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The resulting picture might appear a maze of restless confusions and contradictions, but it is more true to life than a portrait of an artificially contrived order.
It may be that in this comment he has broken from the conventional pattern more violently than in any other regard, for the treatment in his books is far removed from even the genial irony of Ellen Glasgow, who was the only important novelist before him to challenge the conventional picture of planter society.
It is not my intention in this narrative to picture myself as a helpless victim moored to the rock of experience and left to the buffetings of chance.
His delightful picture of society and institutions is filled with warm detail that brings the period vividly to life.
If only for this modest masterpiece of military history, Blenheim is likely to be read and reread long after newer interpretations have perhaps altered our picture of the Marlborough wars.
One reason is, of course, that the new scepticism has been willing to maintain the general picture of the invasions as portrayed in the traditional sources.
That picture of the American prairie is as indelibly fixed in the memory of those who have studied the conquest of the American continent as any later cinema image of the West made in live-oak canyons near Hollywood.
All I want is a picture -- with a few lines.
`` The reason you are in the ring today is to show your ability to present to any judge the most attractive picture of your dog that the skillful use of your aids can produce.
`` Speed in painting a picture is valid only when it imparts spontaneity and crispness, but unless the artist has lots of experience so that he can control rapid execution, he would do well to take these first sketches and soberly reorder their design to achieve a unified composition.
The result is a color picture of the specimen where the primary colors correspond to the three different ultraviolet wavelengths.
The total picture is only seen by the camera which integrates the many sector scans over the entire 90-degree rotation period.
Although there is no question but that the process of washing fabrics involves a number of phenomena which are related together in an extremely complicated way and that these phenomena and their interrelations are not well understood at the present, this section attempts to present briefly an up-to-date picture of the physical chemistry of washing either fabrics or hard surfaces.
On the other hand, looking at the larger picture, is it true that pupil assignment has effectively cut off, blocked, or reduced school desegregation to a `` trickle ''??
Literal flatness now tends to assert itself as the main event of the picture, and the device boomerangs: the illusion of depth is rendered even more precarious than before.
In the upper center of Braque's first collage, Fruit Dish ( in Douglas Cooper's collection ), a bunch of grapes is rendered with such conventionally vivid sculptural effect as to lift it practically off the picture plane.
and it is as if the only stable relation left among the different parts of the picture is the ambivalent and ambiguous one that each has with the surface.
In the first picture ( 9a ) the knife is just beginning to advance into the inclined surface which was left from the previous chip formation.
Of the two, Porter is justly the better known, for he went far beyond the vital finding of fiction for films to take the first step toward fashioning a language of film, toward making the motion picture the intricate, efficient time machine that it has remained since, even in the most inept hands.
The time of the motion picture is fixed absolutely.
Time is built into the motion picture, which cannot exist without time.
The `` moving '' picture of the train or the wave coming at the audience is, to be sure, more intense than a still picture of the same subject, but the difference is really one of degree ; ;
picture and more
The publication of Father Connolly's The Man Has Wings has made more of the group available in print so that a general picture of what it contained can now be had without difficulty.
A brief description accompanying the picture says that the bridge contained more than 6000 tons of timber.
A more detailed description of dictionary operations -- text lookup and dictionary modification -- gives a clearer picture.
instead of seeing objects in space, it sees nothing more than -- a picture.
If pressed by the sitter for more detail, she may be able to bring the picture more into focus and see more sharply, almost as if she were physically going closer.
And so the psalmist gives us one more picture of God: `` The Lord is the strength of my life ''.
And to see the meaning of this new picture, imagine that you can put on more powerful glasses and go back inside the atom and have a look at it in the way we view it today.
Earlier this month Edward R. Murrow, director of the United States Information Agency, came to Hollywood and had dinner with more than 100 leaders of the motion picture industry.
In his later works, Altdorfer moved more towards mannerism and began to depict the human form to the conformity of the Italian model, as well as dominate the picture with frank colors.
These political divisions subdivide the population of Ajaccio into units that can be more democratically served but they do not give a true picture of the size of Ajaccio.
Their labels look much more modern and stylized, with only a minimal picture on each.
Specifically, the conceptual diagram graph 1 identifies only three boxes, two ellipses, and four arrows ( and their five labels ), whereas the picture 1 shows much more pictorial detail, with the scores of implied relationships as implicit in the picture rather than with the nine explicit details in the graph.
Although the description sitting-on ( graph 1 ) is more abstract than the graphic image of a cat sitting on a mat ( picture 1 ), the delineation of abstract things from concrete things is somewhat ambiguous ; this ambiguity or vagueness is characteristic of abstraction.
Often the Chronicles paint a somewhat more positive picture of the same events.
Carbamazepine is effective in treating manic episodes, with some evidence it has greater benefit in rapid-cycling bipolar disorder, or those with more psychotic manic symptoms or a more schizoaffective clinical picture.
picture and treacherous
Even if it is obvious from the picture that a cell will be a box, it is usually treacherous to rely on it.
Diodorus gives a detailed graphic picture as to how the Aśvakayanas ( Kambojs ) had conducted themselves when faced with the sudden treacherous onslaught from Alexander.
picture and when
This statement recalls the 1959 Berlin crisis, when President Eisenhower first told reporters that Berlin could not be defended with conventional weapons and then added that a nuclear defense was out of the picture too.
`` Imagine being able to laugh and wink when you're like the top part of that picture frame at home '', one of them said.
If you look at a reading meant for someone else, you will probably see that many of the items could be considered as applicable to you, even when you were not in the picture at all!!
However, he had a strong interest in the fledgling motion picture industry and when Essanay Studios offered him the opportunity to become a scriptwriter, he took the job.
In 1900, when the club was founded, the emblem of Ajax was just a picture of an Ajax player.
Embittered Bacardi helmsman José Pepín Bosch bought a surplus B-26 bomber with the hopes of bombing Cuban oil refineries ( the bold plan was foiled when a picture of the bomber appeared on the front page of The New York Times ).
This method of measurement is inherited from the method used for the first generation of CRT television, when picture tubes with circular faces were in common use.
An editor's cut ( sometimes referred to as the " Assembly edit " or " Rough cut ") is normally the first pass of what the final film will be when it reaches picture lock.
" Hawks was dissatisfied with the film after being certain that dramatic films would establish his reputation, but realized what he had done wrong when Sol Wurtzel told Hawks " Look, you've shown you can make a picture, but for God's sake, go out and make entertainment.
That will get you in a lot of trouble ," when I remark that some picture or writer or director or producer is no good.
Even when he is depicted as a half-clad anchorite, with cross, skull and Bible for the only furniture of his cell, the red hat or some other indication of his rank as cardinal is as a rule introduced somewhere in the picture.
In 1976, he appeared for the last time in a motion picture, playing a movie crewman who is fired by a movie mogul, played by Art Carney, in Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood, and he also made his final public appearance in that year when he was inducted into the Body Building Guild Hall of Fame.
For example, a picture may have more detail than the eye can distinguish when reproduced at the largest size intended ; likewise, an audio file does not need a lot of fine detail during a very loud passage.
In August 1918, Pickford's contract expired and when refusing Zukor's terms for a renewal, she was offered $ 250, 000 to leave the motion picture business.
More specifically, a motion picture manuscript is called a screenplay ; a television manuscript, a teleplay ; a manuscript for the theatre, a stage play ; and a manuscript for audio-only performance is often called a radio play, even when the recorded performance is disseminated via non-radio means.
The body was reminiscent of a hippo's, only more bulbous ... again, informants invariably pointed to a picture of a sauropod when shown pictures of various animals to which mokele-mbembe might be compared.
; Picture maze: A standard maze that forms a picture when solved.
But when a Viking space probe sends back the picture of an alien creature swinging a stick, a joint US / USSR mission is sent in a hurry to explore the planet, and things develop fast from there.
This picture is most useful when the evolution of the observables can be solved exactly, confining any complications to the evolution of the states.
Flaherty's career in Britain ended when producer Alexander Korda removed him from the production Elephant Boy ( 1937 ), re-editing it into a commercial entertainment picture.
The next morning, when Skaara draws a picture of the people's victory against Ra, Jackson realizes that part of this drawing depicts the seventh symbol needed to reactivate the Stargate: three moons over a pyramid.
The initial purchaser had paid £ 5, 250 for it on its completion, and subsequent sales were for £ 861 in 1935, £ 265 in 1942, and was " bought in " at £ 252 in 1960 ( having failed to meet its reserve ), but when the same picture was auctioned at Christies in New York in May 1995, it sold for £ 1. 75 million.
According to the picture theory, when a proposition is thought or expressed, each of its constituent parts correspond ( if the proposition is true ) to some aspect of the world.
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