Word: depicting
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...begin with, this is an important issue, and not only because of the power of images and stereotypes in American's media-dominated culture. In Indian traditions, words and images not only represent but also embody the spiritual power of what they depict. This has often been compared to the way Catholics think of the bread and wine in the Communion service...
Photographs that supposedly depict Americans in captivity have a special role in the MIA industry because they make the most direct appeal to both reason and the emotions. But many of the most widely circulated pictures have been retouched or misrepresented. Over the past few years, for example, several pictures purporting to show imprisoned Americans have emerged from Kampuchea. They turned out to be altered images of Soviet citizens clipped from old magazines...
...make it allegorical. These reporters can describe a last second buzzer-beating basket in a cellar-dweller basketball game in such terms that we are convinced that this one, perhaps lucky, shot is evidence of the triumph of the human spirit. And they also have the talent to depict the sophomoric tendencies and playing style of a Bill Laimbeer in such a way that we're absolutely sure that these minor flaws are embodiments of the devil incarnate...
Furthermore, imagine a hypothetical situation. A man is working for a superior, another man, who continually makes comments in private about the size of his penis, the pleasure he has brought to others through oral sex, pornographic movies which depict scenes of bondage, etc. Though the first man may feel uncomfortable with such open talk about sexual matters, he would not mention it to anyone. Because it does not represent an overt sexual threat, it would be excused as unusually vulgar male banter...
...real nose-dive for him to lose the election," says Larry Sabato, a professor of political science at the University of Virginia. But he also contends that if Bush vetoes the unemployment bill, "the Democrats will have a very powerful symbol for how they have been trying to depict Bush -- as friend of the rich, uncaring about ordinary people...