Some, intrigued with the (dubious) game of
fitting ancient figures into compartments of modern psychoanalysis, would see Hosea's act as symptomatic of a profound sickness.
They soon discover riches unimaginable, but with those riches come a curse most deadly, awakening the
murderous ancient figure, now possessing the power of a god, to no good end.
Though Gleick focuses on the time - travel stories and speculations that have proliferated since 1900, he draws insights
from ancient figures — Plato, Aristotle, the Buddha, Heraclitus, Parmenides, and Augustine — who plumbed the mystery of time's flow, eternity's stasis.
Skyward Sword is a true Nintendo game, blessed and cursed at the same time by both the overbearing presence of Nintendo's
ancient figures and the progressive touch of the world's best rising talent.
The drones dance across the sky in formation in the twilight as the sounds of the centuries - old instruments resonate in the background while the immovable mountain,
an ancient figure of Japan, looms over in the backdrop.
Liu's paintings present
the ancient figures wearing traditional costumes while performing Beijing opera.
Her early figurative sculptures in wood, terra - cotta, bronze, and plaster (e.g.,
Ancient Figure, 1932) show a preoccupation with blockish, interlocking masses that recall the sculpture of Central America (where she traveled in the 1940s) and anticipate her mature style.
The video literalises
an ancient figure of speech - the camel going through the eye of the needle - an expression found in Islamic, Judaic, and Christian traditions alike.