That was a metaphor for the project's broader point: O Espelho is meant to be a mirror that citizens hold up "to contemplate themselves and the kinds of lives they want to lead," another editor said.
Still, as I envision rearing my own kids with my blond-haired, blue-eyed wife, I'm afraid that when my future children — who may very well look white — contemplate themselves in the mirror, this same society, for the first time in its history, will encourage them not to recognize their grandfather's face.
In Morisot's paintings, women are like Tiburce Morisot's description of his famous sister: "meditative, mysterious, like all those in whom silence is due not to deficiency of thought but to a disdain for its expression". Even side by side with their children, her subjects contemplate themselves apart, in an atmosphere of self-imposed solitude that lifts them above their circumstances.
In contemplating themselves, they have not thought much about skull dimensions, the frequency of mitochondrial DNA haplogroups or the Bering Land Bridge.
Studies of himself and his wife, Siti, portray the couple as alter egos, contemplating themselves and each other amid rich floral backgrounds.
And yet, for all its portraiture of place, its reflexive political vitriol, its passionate condemnation of Nathan Price, "The Poisonwood Bible" is ultimately a novel of character, a narrative shaped by keen-eyed women contemplating themselves and one another and a village whose familiarity it takes a tragedy to discover.
Eriugena, then, has a dialectical understanding of the relation of God and man which can be viewed as orthodox from one point of view, but which is always transgressing the boundaries of orthodoxy in the direction of a view which has God and man mutually contemplating themselves and each other, in an endless, eternal play of theophanies.
No one, however, marches in behalf of the thousands of New Yorkers who contemplate killing themselves and cry out for help.
Yet researchers know astonishingly little about how to treat people who contemplate killing themselves.
Correspondingly, at least two veterans of the Afghan and Iraq Wars kill themselves each day, while, according to Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, 30percentt of Afghan and Iraq vets have contemplated killing themselves.
And things aren't so rosy in the about-to-split Big East, where the departing multitudes are contemplating calling themselves the America 12 Conference, which is fittingly ridiculous.
