(n.) The art or representation by pictures or images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons; as, the iconography of the ancients.
(n.) The study of representative art in general.
Example Sentences:
(1) The bench rejected the petition seeking prosecution for offending Hindus, saying it was a work of art and citing India's tradition of graphic sexual iconography.
(2) Often, Hofer’s flirtation with the iconography and language of the National Socialist movement has been far from covert.
(3) Filled with classic British gangster-movie iconography – hard London faces hung upside-down from meathooks, the stock-car pile-up – The Long Good Friday is also a grownup, despairing look at Britain on the edge of an economic and political precipice.
(4) This is what the iconography in Roman and Christian charity confirms.
(5) The eleven cases are reviewed and a classification supported by an iconography is given, according to the unstability of the odontoid or of the pedicles.
(6) And yet despite the iconography of her glacial portraits and the tales of wicked Sir Oswald, Britain's only significant fascist (and, in case it should be forgotten, previously a leading light in the MacDonald-era Labour party), Lady Mosley's real significance rests on her supporting role in a much grander tableau: the story of the Mitford girls and the 80-year sway that they have exerted over upper-level English society.
(7) When questioned about this iconography of one of the 20th-century’s worst mass murderers, he conceded that Mao had “probably” been a monster, but added: “We will be arguing about this to the end of time.” In a sense, Briggs remained marooned in the optimistic period of his prime – the 40s to the 60s – a believer above all in what he called in one of his best books The Age of Improvement (1959).
(8) With the help of an iconography they describe the possible anatomical variations according with the surgical possibilities.
(9) That’s not to say I’m not proud of my work, but the fact is I remember starting to shoot Super 8 and Star Trek Into Darkness and feeling like I hadn’t really solved some fundamental story problems.” The film-maker revealed that changes to well-known Star Wars iconography, such as C-3PO sporting a new red arm, and the Millennium Falcon now featuring a rectacular radar dish, were designed to convey a sense of the time that had passed since the events of Return of the Jedi.
(10) The band is famously subversive, with an ironic tone and use of political imagery including, most controversially, fascist iconography – while at the same time collaborating with anti-fascist artists .
(11) Not, perhaps, for its dogma, but for its iconography, its traditions, its teachings.
(12) Review of a very well documented case with a very complete iconography, and of the literature led to the following conclusions.
(13) The decision as to whether anticoagulant treatment should be instituted must be based on the certitude of the diagnosis, and this can be obtained in an atraumatic manner by ultrasonography of the popliteal fossa as shown by iconography.
(14) He cites the “grammar” of Islamic art “that underpins the whole of life”, the “magical” rhythms of gardens and nature, the timelessness of Christian iconography and the symmetry of 16th-century German astronomy, Thomas Aquinas’s “eternal law”, the Vedic traditions of India, and Chinese Daoism.
(15) But for all their invocations of the rich precedents of nudity in India's art history and religious iconography, Husain's defenders could do little to stem the tide of attacks – notably over the internet – on more and more of his images.
(16) The only rival to the toilet bowl for campaign iconography has been a statue of Hendrik Verwoerd, reviled architect of racial apartheid, in another DA-run municipality that the party holds up as a showcase of good governance.
(17) This principle of "two units combining to form one", this unification of two opposing and complementary principles has been depicted in a model manner in the iconography of Hinduism and Tantric Buddhism.
(18) The banners outside have tantalised people by showing iconography that they insist looks "flat".
(19) She has always been a subject we’ve been fascinated by and she has appeared in a few of our previous exhibitions but there’s never really been one exhibition entirely devoted to her iconography.
(20) By creating a colourful link with the iconography of the nation, Mas hopes to make an indissoluble connection between himself and the essence of being Catalan.
Theme
Definition:
(n.) A subject or topic on which a person writes or speaks; a proposition for discussion or argument; a text.
(n.) Discourse on a certain subject.
(n.) A composition or essay required of a pupil.
(n.) A noun or verb, not modified by inflections; also, that part of a noun or verb which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) in declension or conjugation; stem.
(n.) That by means of which a thing is done; means; instrument.
(n.) The leading subject of a composition or a movement.
Example Sentences:
(1) A world conference in Edinburgh during August 1988 will have the theme.
(2) That, roughly, was the theme of the Wednesday Play, Cathy Come Home, (BBC1) directed by Kenneth Loach, produced by Tony Garnett.
(3) as well as nauseatingly hipster titbits – "They came up with the perfect theme (and coined a new term!
(4) Sometimes it can seem as if the history of the City is the history of its crises and disasters, from the banking crisis of 1825 (which saw undercapitalised banks collapse – perhaps the closest historic parallel to the contemporary credit crunch), through the Spanish panic of 1835, the railway bust of 1837, the crash of Overend Gurney, the Kaffir boom, the Westralian boom, the Marconi scandal, and so on and on – a theme with endless variations.
(5) By no means is this a new theme, but it has taken on an added sharpness and urgency after the conferences.
(6) An obsessional artist who was an enemy of all institutions, cinematic as well as social, and whose principal theme was intolerance, he invariably gets delivered to us today by institutions - most recently the National Film Theatre, which starts a Dreyer retrospective this month - that can't always be counted on to represent him in all his complexity.
(7) Read more Clinton spoke before more than a thousand supporters on Saturday at a launch event for “Women for Hillary” in New Hampshire, touching upon many of the familiar themes of her presidential campaign – equal pay for women, paid family leave, raising the minimum wage.
(8) The Christmas theme doesn't end there; "America's Christmas Hometown" also has Santa's Candy Castle, a red-brick building with turrets that was built by the Curtiss Candy Company in the 1930s and sells gourmet candy canes in abundance.
(9) Similar paradoxes bedevilled all the other chief themes.
(10) Synthesis and discussion is focused on five major areas in which gerontological continuity and change are evidenced: 1) transformation of basic themes over time; 2) gerontology's identity crisis; 3) the social ideology of gerontology; 4) evolution and refinement of gerontological ideas and methods; and 5) temporal frameworks.
(11) A key theme is expected to be that early intervention at every stage of life can prevent society having to continue "paying for the costs of failure".
(12) One constant theme is the wish for the Dalai Lama to return."
(13) The national anthems Nothing to say about the Indian anthem, but the New Zealand one sounds like the theme tune for an 1960s ATV variety spectacular.
(14) Ever since the ex-PD leader Walter Veltroni started praising President Kennedy as a way to jettison communism, this has been an abiding theme, manifesting itself institutionally in the desperate attempt to engineer a US-style two-party system through breathtakingly inept electoral reforms – the latest one, the " Porcellum " (after porcello, swine), was behind the impasse earlier this year.
(15) Ladybird: I’m Ready to Spell has a space theme, and is based on the phonics that kids will be learning in their first years at school.
(16) Bleak jokes and cartoons have been circulating for weeks in the anti-Assad camp on the theme of barrel bombs serving as ballot boxes.
(17) Redesigning the dream was identified as the integrative theme in the substantive theory that described how family members gradually modify their beliefs about organ transplantation and develop attitudes and beliefs to meet the challenge of living with continual unpredictability.
(18) Oil operators, large and small, are very keen to address the key themes of the waste hierarchy.
(19) And they kept coming … the hilarious Octodad: Dadliest Catch , the chilling psychological horror game Daylight , which again, uses procedural generation to create new environments (procedural content is another next-gen theme); and Galak-Z from 17bit Studios, described as an AI and physics-driven open-world action game.
(20) Cross-sectional as well as longitudinal comparisons indicated that the subjective sexual arousal elicited during fantasy depicting specific themes was stable across the menstrual cycle.