As Origen interprets the end of history on the basis of its beginning, so Irenaeus portrays the story of Adam on the basis of the story of Christ.

Though Le Fanu portrays his vampire's sexuality with the circumspection that one would expect for his time, it is evident that lesbian attraction is the main dynamic between Carmilla and the narrator of the story:

* A Vietnamese mythological story portrays the rabbit of innocence and youthfulness.

Brent Spiner portrays the android Data ; rumors before the film's release suggested that since Data's skin had been largely removed at the end of the story, it would allow another actor to assume the role.

In the 1971 Emmy Award winning TV movie " Brian's Song " which portrays the story of former Chicago Bears running backs Brian Piccolo and Hall of Famer Gale Sayers, it ’ s the night after Piccolo's second surgery and Piccolo ( James Caan ) is talking to Sayers ( Billy Dee Williams ) on the phone.

The story itself portrays the education of mankind, progressing from chaos through religious superstition to rationalistic enlightenment, by means of trial ( Tamino ) and error ( Papageno ), ultimately to make " the Earth a heavenly kingdom, and mortals like the gods ".

In Kenneth Gardner's award winning 2002 novel Rich Man's Coffin, he portrays the true story of a black American slave who escapes on a whaling ship to New Zealand to become chief of one of the cannibal Maori tribes.

The title story of the Robot Dreams collection portrays LVX-1, or " Elvex ", a robot who enters a state of unconsciousness and dreams thanks to the unusual fractal construction of his positronic brain.

* Marina and the Diamonds's second album Electra Heart is based on a character she created of the same name whose story is told through the album, and which portrays the darker side of the American dream with elements of Greek tragedy which are particularly apparent in her visuals and aesthetic.

This story portrays the confused courtship of the title character, a free-spirited American girl, by Winterbourne, a compatriot of hers with much more sophistication.

A Double Life is a 1947 film noir which tells the story of an actor whose mind becomes affected by the character he portrays.

Although the popularity of the first story persists, and portrays Garrett in a better light, some historians contend that the second version is probably the accurate one.

Nobuo Kojima's short story " The American School " portrays a group of Japanese teachers of English who, in the immediate aftermath of the war, deal with the American occupation in varying ways.

* 1933: Hollywood B-movie Air Hostess portrays a love story about a stewardess ( Evalyn Knapp ) and a pilot ( James Murray ).

An example of this is the story " Nethescurial ", which portrays an omnipresent, malevolent creator deity once worshipped by the inhabitants of a small island.

Padayani is being performed as an offering to Goddess Kali ( Devi ) and often portrays the story of Goddess winning victory over Daarikan, an evil character.

The motion picture Brokeback Mountain portrays this lifestyle in the first act of the story, in which the shepherds take their sheep into BLM lands.

In the 1940 film Virginia City, Humphrey Bogart portrays a bandit named John Murrell, although the action in that story takes place at the end of the Civil War, more than twenty years after the death of the real Murrell.

* The award-winning short story by Robert J. Sawyer, " You See But You Do Not Observe ", portrays Mycroft Holmes ' namesake involved in pulling Sherlock and Watson into the year 2096 to solve a scientific mystery.

* In his short story " The Devil and Daniel Webster " ( 1937 ), Stephen Vincent Benet portrays Metacom as a villain to the colonists, and as being killed by a blow to the head ( he was shot in the heart ).

On the Road portrays the story of a fierce personal quest for meaning and belonging.

The story, then ( in imitation of the classical epics ) portrays the gods of Greece watching over the voyage of Vasco da Gama.

The 1990 television movie Traitor in My House tells the story of ELizabeth Van Lew from the perspective of her niece ; Mary Kay Place portrays Elizabeth.

The book of Ruth portrays a perfect example of a true belief in the Creator God in that it propagates inclusion of all, even in the ancient world of the Israelites where separation is made obvious between Israelites and non-Israelites.

Haeckel ’ s ‘ Biogenetic Law ’ portrays the parallel relationship between an embryo ’ s development and phylogenetic history.

Marion Zimmer Bradley, who acknowledges the influence of Murray, uses the figure of the " horned god " in her feminist fantasy transformation of Arthurinian myth, Mists of Avalon ( 1984 ), and portrays ritualistic incest between King Arthur as the representative of the horned god and his sister Morgaine as the " spring maiden ".

The sketch portrays a conflict between disgruntled customer Mr Praline ( played by Cleese ) and a shopkeeper ( Michael Palin ), who hold contradictory positions on the vital state of a " Norwegian Blue " parrot.

A work of romantic fiction, Sense and Sensibility is set in southwest England between 1792 and 1797, and portrays the life and loves of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne.

In other words, the poet portrays kisses between a man and a woman as having the possibility of leading to sex, while in a heterosexual world kisses between a man and a man are portrayed as having no such possibility.

Clouds is not the only Aristophanes comedy which portrays conflict between an older man and his younger counterpart.

War films usually frame World War II as a conflict between good and evil as represented by the Allied forces and Nazi Germany whereas the Western portrays the conflict between " civilized " settlers and the " savage " indigenous peoples.

The most significant difference between the plot and the historical events is the scene that replaces an incident where the captain threw almost all the submarine's small arms overboard out of concern about the possibility of a mutiny ; the film instead portrays an actual attempt at mutiny.

It is a red flag bearing the logo of the SED, which portrays the handshake between Communist Party of Germany | Communist Wilhelm Pieck and Social Democratic Party of Germany | Social Democrat Otto Grotewohl when their parties merged in 1946.

The title poem portrays the Jewish community of Hester Street New York, and deals with the effects of capitalism, gender conflict and conflicts between generations on this immigrant community in ways that bear comparison to the works of Charles Reznikoff.

He believes that cruelty is a more important theme than the more often debated controversy surrounding gender, as the play portrays a broad representation of human cruelty rather than merely cruelty between the sexes.

The drama series The Tudors: portrays the relationship between Mary and Charles Brandon, though the character is named Princess Margaret, and is a composite of Mary and her sister Margaret Tudor, portrayed by Gabrielle Anwar.

* The movie, Gattaca, portrays a society that uses biometric surveillance to distinguish between people who are genetically engineered " superior " humans and genetically natural " inferior " humans.

The film portrays the first meeting between Shapiro and Kaufman at a nightclub, following Kaufman's set where he performed an imitation of President Jimmy Carter.

The census tally portrays the make-up of a young logging and sawmill community: Of the 124 people counted, 117 ( 94 %) were adults between the ages of 20 and 50, and the remaining 7 were children.

The biopic Ray, released in October 2004, portrays his life and career between 1930 and 1979 and stars Jamie Foxx as Charles.

Rozensweig's major work, Star of Redemption, is his new philosophy in which he portrays the relationships between haShem, humanity and world as they are connected by creation, revelation and redemption.

The film portrays the Battle of the River Plate, a naval battle of 1939, between a Royal Navy force of three cruisers and the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee.

The film portrays a fictional nuclear war between the United States / NATO and the Soviet Union / Warsaw Pact.

The second vision portrays seven angels bringing Levi seven insignia signifying priesthood, prophecy, and judgement ; in the vision, after the angels anoint Levi, and initiate him as a priest, they tell him of the future of his descendants, mentioning Moses, the Aaronid priesthood, and a time when there would be priest-kings ; this latter point was of particular interest to the Maccabean period of John Hyrcanus, who was both a high priest, and warrior-king, though according to textual scholars this is to be expected, since the Testament of Levi was written during Maccabean rule, between 153BC and 107BC, and closer to the latter date.