While both artists kept in contact with African Americans on the West Coast during its creation, influencing the content and depictions.

While popular in cinema and art for depictions of medieval European characters ( such as Robin Hood ), this style of quiver originated with Native American tribes of North America, and was never used in medieval Europe or Asia.

" While he disdained the label of " realist ", Flaubert clearly took heed of Balzac's close attention to detail and unvarnished depictions of bourgeois life.

While this is at variance with the depictions by Plato and Xenophon, two of Socrates ' students, it is plausible that Aristophanes ' parody of Socrates is more accurate than their panegyrics.

While there was a precedent for painted depictions of Mary grieving over the dead Christ in Florentine art, the subject appears to have been novel to Italian sculpture.

While musical life was undoubtedly rich in the early Medieval era, as attested by artistic depictions of instruments, writings about music, and other records, the only repertory of music which has survived from before 800 to the present day is the plainsong liturgical music of the Roman Catholic Church, the largest part of which is called Gregorian chant.

While the term " nativity scene " typically includes two dimensional depictions in film, painting, printmaking, and other media, in the history of art and culture, as well as in popular use, the term refers to static, three dimensional, artistic, commercial or folk art dioramas, or pantomimes called " living nativity scenes " in which real humans and animals participate.

While the Secretariat building is most predominantly featured in depictions of the headquarters, it also includes the domed General Assembly building, the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, as well as the Conference and Visitors Center, which is situated between the General Assembly and Secretariat buildings, and can be seen only from FDR Drive or the East River.

While his work is the product of his life and experiences, his paintings are not in the highly symbolic style of traditional Aboriginal art ; they are richly detailed depictions.

While not every coin issued featured references to an ancestor of a moneyer, the number of references increased and the depictions became more and more of current interest.

While mostly known and often quoted for being the oldest colour depiction of the city of Stockholm, Vädersolstavlan ( Swedish ; " The Sundog Painting ", literally " The Weather Sun Painting ") is arguably also one of the oldest known depictions of a sun dog.

While slight manipulation for dramatic effect of chronology and character traits are generally accepted, some critics feel that depictions that present a significantly altered reality are irresponsible, particularly because many viewers and readers do not know the actual events and may thus take the dramatized depiction to be true to reality.

While some critics criticized the film's depictions of violence and greed — such as death scenes, Kate's speech, and the gremlins ' gluttony — for lacking comic value, scholar Charlotte Miller instead interpreted these as a satire of " some characteristics of Western civilization ", suggesting that Westerners may take too much satisfaction from violence.

While Stade complemented Lessing on the book's satire, and her depictions of Zone 6, which he said " have the eerie beauty of ancient Gnostic texts ", he " disapprove " of the novel as a whole, but added, " that doesn't mean I didn't enjoy reading it ".

While most portraits of common people seem good-hearted, depictions of the bourgeoisie and the ecclesiastical world are generally despicable.

While the technical feat of allowing four players to fight simultaneously in the same room was to be a major selling point, this was overshadowed by the controversy surrounding the game's depictions of violence and sexual content.

While it is the rounded female stattuetes, dubbed venus figurines, that have garnered the most attention, sculpted objects also featured more " normal " human depictions, as well as that of animals.

While Panofsky's claim that the painting formed a kind of certificate of marriage is not accepted by all subsequent writers, his analysis of the symbolic function of the details is broadly agreed, and has been applied to many other Early Netherlandish paintings, especially a number of depictions of the Annunciation set in richly detailed interiors, a tradition for which the Arnolfini Portrait and the Mérode Altarpiece by Robert Campin represent the start ( in terms of surviving works at least ).

While others interpreted the cave images as depictions of hunting accidents or of ceremonies, Frobenius believed it was much more likely that "... what was undertaken the paintings was a consecration of the animal effected not through any real confrontation of man and beast but by a depiction of a concept of the mind.

While particularly popular in the Medieval era, there were also many depictions of the Jesse Tree in Gothic Revival art of the 19th century.

While the eventuality mentioned in the story never materialised, it was one of the earliest popular depictions of the possibilities inherent in satellite TV, a subject also featuring in other Clarke works of both fiction and non-fiction — to which some credit is due for the idea having eventually become a reality.

While the Hinchcliffe Era ( 1974 – 1977 ) is generally seen by fans and critics as the best era in the classic series run, the increasing horror elements and depictions of violence attracted much criticism, notably from Mary Whitehouse, who had previously attacked the Barry Letts era for shows like Terror of the Autons.

While appreciating the fact that Muhammad was included in the court's pantheon of 18 prominent lawgivers of history, CAIR noted that Islam discourages depictions of Muhammad in any artistic representation.

While the dragon has often served as China's national emblem, internationally the panda appears at least as commonly.

While Cyclops defeats the dragon, Hope is able to absorb its power and defeat Cyclops who then goes to seek the final portion of the Phoenix Force possessed by Emma Frost.

While there, some dispute arose between them and the Dwarves over the treasure-hoard of Scatha the dragon.

While renowned for slaying a dragon in his younger, more virile days, he has now become somewhat infirm and addled.

*** While the largest extant lizard, the Komodo dragon ( Varanus komodoensis ), another island giant, can reach in length, its extinct Australian relative Megalania may have reached more than twice that size.

While under his care, weyrlings learn everything from basic dragon husbandry to advanced threadfighting techniques.

While ' competition ' has taken place annually for more than 20 centuries as part of religious ceremonies and folk customs, dragon boat racing has emerged in modern times as an international sport, beginning in Hong Kong in 1976.

While she showed to the heroes the way to the nearest well, she left the child behind lying in a meadow, which during her absence was killed by a dragon.

While having drinks with his friends in the local taverns, they would notice a silhouette of a dragon over him whenever he was drunk.

While enjoying the playroom, they discover an ancient dragon scale that transports them to Dragon Land, a world of fantasy that brims with talking trees, rainbow rivers, gnomes, giants – and dragons!

While traveling down a long corridor, the dragon surrounds Keil in a force field, lifting him from the saddle and suspending him in the hallway.

While " Wurm " ( without the umlaut over the " u ") is an Old English word for " dragon " ( worm, wurm, wyrm ), the Würm is a river in Germany which gave its name to an ice age in geology.

While sailing to Sancrist, they are attacked by Feal-Thas ' white dragon, Sleet, who sinks their vessel off the coast of Southern Ergoth.

* While inside the belly of the dragon, Richard opens Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, releasing The Queen of Hearts who shouts " off with his head!

While trying to dislodge the black sword, the ice dragon, Igjarjuk, appears and attacks them.

While the weedy sea dragon is a desired species in the international aquarium trade, the volume of wild-caught individuals is small and therefore not currently a major threat.

While his main dragon is Raitonaitsunaito, he also has Darxs and attempts to control Shinryu in the anime, instead becoming possessed by the dragon itself.

While passing a mountain guarded by a vicious, fire-breathing dragon, Donkey tries to talk the dragon guard into allowing him and Shrek to pass and compliments the dragon, whom he discovers is a female, and the dragon is greatly pleased by Donkey's flattering and lets them pass.

While Aerin continues her role as dragon killer, trouble comes from the north, spreading madness to one of the western barons, Nyrlol, who is threatening civil war.