Sentences with phrase «figured woman appear»

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For me to appear to you as a woman and suggest that you call me Papa is simply to mix metaphors, to help you keep from falling so easily back into your religious conditioning... To reveal myself to you as a very large, white grandfather figure with flowing beard, like Gandalf, would simply reinforce your religious stereotypes, and this weekend is not about reinforcing your religious stereotypes.»

And the policy appears to have worked: more than 200 needle exchanges are now operating in Britain and figures just published by the Public Health Laboratory Service suggest that only about 6 per cent of men and 7 per cent of women now injecting drugs in London are HIV - positive.

Maybe what most marks Beau travail as a film by a woman is the way Denis uses African women to subtly impose an ironic frame around the story; from beginning to end, they figure implicitly and unobtrusively as a kind of mainly mute Greek chorus — whether they're dancing in the disco, speaking in the market, appearing briefly as the girlfriends of some legionnaires (including Galoup), or serving as witnesses to portions of the action.

Drawn from Margot Lee Shetterly's non-fiction account, Hidden Figures dramatizes the work of people whose faces never appeared in broadcasts from Cape Kennedy or Mission Control, a trio of African American women whose facility with numbers...

This book is open access under a CC BY license.Statistically, women appear to suffer more frequently from depressive and anxiety disorders, featuring more regularly in primary care figures for consultations, diagnoses and prescriptions for psychotropic medication.

Single figures, all male (his backwoods world appears to be free of women), are engulfed by their natural settings.

Another group of works, Blackout (2007 - 2010), features five sculptures made of black - painted crowd barriers that appear to collapse languorously on white pedestals, as if mocking the modernist, semi-abstract figures of «reclining women» that populate sculpture gardens of museums of modern art around the world.

''... de Kooning's women appear far more tranquil and are integrated into their surroundings;... Severe frontality, the direct confrontation of figures and spectator, gives way at they women recline, complacent and at ease in the countryside.

The figure of a young woman in intricate dress appeared thousands of times in her work, and is often thought to be a representation of herself or her lost daughter, and in general female subjects dominate her work.

Clare Bonnet is well known for her paintings of women, who appear in pairs or as solitary figures.