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portrayal
«If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being»
«Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see -- not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness.»
Author: Lewis H. Lapham
| Keywords:
blameless, mounting, perfect game, plausible, portrayal, portrayals, recover, sports fan, The Power of Darkness
«Anglo-American culture seems to be governed by the perverse belief that portrayals of the body's abuse or destruction are harmless, even fortifying, while those that show the body in pleasure act like poison»
Author: Walter Kendrick
| About:
America and Americans,
Culture
| Keywords:
American culture, Anglo-American, Anglo, fortifying, harmless, perverse, portrayal, portrayals
«History is no more than the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
History
| Keywords:
crimes, misfortunes, portrayal, portrayals
«From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Animals
| Keywords:
displays, eagle, food for thought, manifest, oyster, oysters, portrayal, portrayals, reflections, several, swine, The Eagle, The Tiger, tiger, visible