It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

Thornburg knew, better than any of them, that a public image was as fragile as Humpty Dumpty.

Harvey said his objective was to create a better public image for welfare ''.

He was awarded a fellowship to continue his studies in Tokyo and he packed up his clothes, the biwa upon which he had been practicing and his image of Acala, and left to spend a week at home before leaving the country.

When he rose in the morning, the image was still there.

The AMPAS was originally conceived by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio boss Louis B. Mayer as a professional honorary organization to help improve the film industry ’ s image and help mediate labor disputes.

Its modern development was initiated in the 1970s when it adds a modern instrumentation to the image of the electric guitar, synthesizer and drums.

Divination was based on spontaneous movements of this image.

This embodies the belief that the image was somehow the god or man himself.

It was during the prolonged absence of Moses that Aaron yielded to the clamors of the people, and made a Golden Calf as a visible image of the divinity who had delivered them from Egypt ( Exodus 32: 1-6 ).

This image of a fully mature " Venus rising from the sea " ( Venus Anadyomene ) was one of the iconic representations of Aphrodite, made famous in a much-admired painting by Apelles, now lost, but described in the Natural History of Pliny the Elder.

The representation of Aphrodite Ourania, with a foot resting on a tortoise, was read later as emblematic of discretion in conjugal love ; the image is credited to Phidias, in a chryselephantine sculpture made for Elis, of which we have only a passing remark by Pausanias.

Budge surmised that Abrasax was " a form of the Adam Kadmon of the Kabbalists and the Primal Man whom God made in His own image.

He thought that the image of " Apollo riding his chariot across the Sun was appropriate to the grand scale of the proposed program.

As he was dying on the voyage back from Egypt, he gave instructions to those close to him that they should not be responsible for making any image of his person, be it modeled or painted or copied, " For if I have accomplished any glorious feat, that will be my memorial.

Ajax, who in the post-Homeric legend is described as the grandson of Aeacus and the great-grandson of Zeus, was the tutelary hero of the island of Salamis, where he had a temple and an image, and where a festival called Aianteia was celebrated in his honour.

* In mid-2009, Fleming was commemorated on a new series of banknotes issued by the Clydesdale Bank ; his image appears on the new issue of £ 5 notes.

image: Ap17 strolling. ogg | Harrison Schmitt sings I was strolling on the Moon one day.

This matte contains the coverage information — the shape of the geometry being drawn — making it possible to distinguish between parts of the image where the geometry was actually drawn and other parts of the image which are empty.

The book was very popular, and contributed to an image of the discoverer as a solitary individual who challenged the unknown sea, as triumphant Americans contemplated the dangers and promise of their own wilderness frontier.

Synchronization of the receiver disc rotation was handled through sync pulses broadcast with the image information.

An image of the Indian rhinoceros, the image has such force that it remains one of his best-known and was still used in some German school science text-books as late as last century.

Her prominent, protagonist role in Heroes was supported by a strong fan-base and provided a positive image for high school cheerleading.

The advent of digital technology in photography has provided additional means of controlling the extent of image sharpness ; some methods allow extended DOF that would be impossible with traditional techniques, and some allow the DOF to be determined after the image is made.

In the latter painting on silk ( image and description provided in the link ), bald-headed Buddhist Luohan are depicted in a practical setting of washing clothes by a river.

Eliphas Levi's image of " Baphomet " serves as an example of the transformation of the Devil into a benevolent fertility deity and provided the prototype for Murray's horned god.

The marble Laocoön provided the central image for Lessing's Laocoön, 1766, an aesthetic polemic directed against Winckelmann and the comte de Caylus.

* Virtual Machine Image-cloud users can upload a machine image of their own with MySQL installed, or use a ready-made machine image with an optimized installation of MySQL on it, such as the one provided by Amazon EC2.

By explaining how he intended the visitors to understand the image over the altar, Paulinus provided rare insight into the intentions of a patron of art in the later Empire.

A Bash ( Unix shell ) script to convert JPEG images to PNG images, where the image names are provided on the command line-possibly via wildcards-instead of each being listed within the script, can be created with this file, typically saved in a file like < tt >/ home / username / bin / jpg2png </ tt >

In film, a widescreen film is any film image with a width-to-height aspect ratio greater than the standard 1. 37: 1 Academy aspect ratio provided by 35mm film.

Various perceptions and images on NGOs are provided, and usually implemented in an image as ' non-state actors ' or ' influential representatives of civil society that advocate the citizen.

As a more specific example, Canon developed an autofocusing camera that uses a charge-coupled device ( CCD ) to measure the clarity of the image in six regions of its field of view and use the information provided to determine if the image is in focus.

Norwegian author Johan Bojer provided a mirror image, depicting the struggles and processes which led to the decisions to emigrate.

Mobutu viewed the Soviet presence as advantageous for two reasons: it allowed him to maintain an image of non-alignment, and it provided a convenient scapegoat for problems at home.

These systems enabled an organization to capture faxes and forms, to save copies of the documents as images, and to store the image files in the repository for security and quick retrieval ( retrieval made possible because the system handled the extraction of the text from the document in the process of capture, and the text-indexer function provided text-retrieval capabilities ).

Another story is that she took the Palladium, an image of Athena that had fallen from the sky and supposedly provided Troy its protection, with her.

Though this image and her accurate interpretation of the data provided valuable insight into the DNA structure, Franklin's scientific contributions to the discovery of the double helix are often overlooked.

In 2007, the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project ( LOIRP ) began a process to convert the Lunar Orbiter Images directly from the original Ampex FR-900 analog video recordings of the spacecraft data to digital image format, a change which provided vastly improved resolution over the original images released in the 1960s.

" It also provided a cerebral aspect to the band's image: as the mainstream media caricatured Black Flag as a mindlessly aggressive act, the pairing of their music with high-concept artwork hinted at a greater intelligence at work that was unknown to outsiders.

In 2010, a founder of the Saatchi & Saatchi advertising firm, said that Haughey had asked for a ‘ a new image ’ similar to the one provided for Margaret Thatcher for the 1979 general election.

The praise psychologists received from government, industry, and the military provided a tremendous boost for the public image of psychology ...

For Electronika BK-0011M and Electronika BK-0011 ANDOS provided Electronika BK-0010 emulation by loading BK-0010 ROM image into BK-0011 ( M ) RAM.

The single's sleeve was designed by Peter Saville, whose distinctive graphics provided OMD's public image well into the mid-80s.