Nash always conceives of the world as a sphere in space.
And the pictures have a sense of humor: the famously corpulent 27th president is basically a sphere in a waistcoat.
The remaining cold war superpower, the United States, is slowly squaring up to the emerging behemoth, China, in a sphere in which Beijing has a distinct advantage: cyberspace.
It was a bizarrely imagined creation, with its centerpiece a large bronze vessel surrounded by eight dragons, each holding a sphere in its mouth.
This condition pertains with special poignance to a sphere in which the rich (collectors, patrons) and the relatively poor (artists, intellectuals) intermingle.
Alarmed, Toby shares the news with a trusted ear, but he is working in a sphere in which no good act goes unpunished, and so it goes for him.
Partly through public readings, their aim was to create a sphere in which writers could use their renown and literary gifts to start challenging the government on moral and political issues and provide a model for civic deliberation among Germans generally.
What's worst about it is that there was no one freakish event that precipitated the misery, no car crash or murder, no one betrayal or moment of catastrophic bad fortune: he was just a man with a majestic talent that propelled him into a sphere in which he was ill-equipped to cope.
"It was very difficult," Fels writes, "to move from a sphere in which a few farms formed a world, and the presence of a supportive counterculture was ubiquitous in the media and on the street, to one in which each of us had to make his own way".
We suppose that the tomato is a sphere in the 3D space.
The picrite was pre-fused to a sphere in a graphite crucible before it was placed in the levitation nozzle.
