The course was called Seeing Narrative, and the discussion centered on Plato's skepticism about the ability of any visible thing to represent ideal truth — a skepticism that, say, a bunch of beautiful images strung together in a movie could communicate the perfect, invisible idea of Beauty.
In the midwest of the 1950s the growing-up of a young gay man is a vulnerable, marginal, barely visible thing, riven by confusion, self-hatred and doubt.
On a daily basis they compare, more than men, a thousand visible things with one another".
"The yacht, of course, is the most visible thing," says Theodora Bird Bear, a 63-year-old resident of Mandaree, an impoverished town of 600 on the reservation.
A number of award-winning artists and musicians were asked to create music for a piece of art, which is played in a darkened room with the artwork being the only visible thing.
"We are the visible thing," Mr. Roberts, of the tour company, said.
So far, the one visible thing that the decimated Préval government has accomplished since the earthquake is to categorize the damage.
But the incumbent local phone companies are generally riding high above the carnage, and that speaks to the most visible thing that AT&T gives its children: capital and customers.
Unlike mattresses, which generally go covered/unseen for most of their lifespan, the couch is often the biggest, most visible thing in one's living room.
DACA, said Philip Wolgin, who works on immigration policy at the Center for American Progress, was "the most visible thing on the chopping block". .
