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The exterior of the structure was a collage of Africa and Africans as portrayed in the Western media and literature.
And of course, you have the lowlifes and the losers, too, all vividly portrayed.
But as Africans continue to step and see themselves portrayed by Nollywood in their varied and fantastic complexities, they will, in turn, propagate and perpetuate the positive image of themselves.
As Barbara depicted in one of her amazing movies, "Yentl," she portrayed a young woman who wanted an education.
Here's Sisyphus as portrayed by Titian, condemned by the gods to push a huge boulder up to the top of the hill.
But we're always shown evolution portrayed something like this, a monkey and a chimpanzee, some extinct humans, all on a forward and steady march to becoming us.
In classical art and writings, the fearsome Amazons were always portrayed as brave and heroic.
She portrayed Acid Burn in the '95 film "Hackers."
And they were all too happy to do that, and we got an idea of what life on the streets was all about, very different than what you see on the 11 o'clock news, very different than what is portrayed in popular media and even social media.
My heart ached that this is how we are portrayed to the world, even from a literary perspective.
"That's Beijing" is similar to "Time Out," a magazine that broadcasts what is happening in town during the week, and suddenly you see the building portrayed no longer as physical matter, but actually as an urban actor, as part of a series of personas that define the life of the city.
I have portrayed more than 3,000 people in 13 different countries, 19 different cities around the world.
And I've always thought it a shame that these giant, plant-eating dinosaurs are too often portrayed as passive, lumbering platters of meat on the landscape.
And Richard Nixon, or more accurately, his speechwriter, a guy named William Safire, spent a lot of time thinking about language and making sure that his boss portrayed a rhetoric of honesty.
I'm not saying that this could solve everything, but it could introduce technology to people who originally wouldn't be interested in it because of how it has been portrayed and taught in school.
From mythology to science fiction, human versus machine has been often portrayed as a matter of life and death.
A survey of recent Best Picture nominations found that only 12 percent of speaking or named characters were age 60 and up, and many of them were portrayed as impaired.
And yet at the same time, I felt like there was such a disconnect between the way that I understood my own very multidimensional sense of my gender identity and the very two-dimensional way that women and femmes were often portrayed in the media.
Rather than recognizable monsters, graphic violence, or startling shocks, the terror of “Lovecraftian” horror lies in what’s not directly portrayed– but left instead to the dark depths of our imagination.
Because I look at the way women are portrayed all the time, whether they're kind of glorified in this way, or whether they're kind of, you know, ironically glorified, or whether they're sort of denigrated or ironically denigrated.
As a photographer for National Geographic, I've portrayed it for many.
Portrayed as a powerful, heavenly figure, she leads Dante through "Paradiso’s" concentric spheres of Heaven until he is finally face-to-face with God.
If one can speak of a cosmic war, it's not the one portrayed in those pessimistic stories.
We portrayed Joy as a child version of Kay, with a yellow raincoat, so she is invulnerable to the ocean of tears.
For this reason, the supreme deity is sometimes portrayed as a poor beggar at the mercy of Annapurna; holding her golden bowl in her left hand, while the right forms the abhaya mudra–– a gesture of safety and assurance.
And she pointed to the image on the right as an example, to me, of the kind of dignity that needed to be portrayed to work against those images in the media.
The intelligent designer's always portrayed as this super intelligent, moral being that comes down to design life.
In many ways the film was a great sequel to TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE as it portrayed a military equally as insane and out of control, a quasi FRAT PARTY/ANIMAL HOUSE extravaganza mixed in with a Texas Red Neck world of repressed homo-erotic proofs of masculinity.
1) If you want to make a movie that deals with social realism it's quite important that the audience identify with the characters that are being portrayed.
A peppy, shallow, stupid ,stereotypical, girl who is portrayed by a horrible actress.
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