Certainly, his handsomeness is so extreme that the camera tends to be angled up at him, as if at one of the ancient bronze deities over which the Professor enthuses.
You might think his heroic portraits of President Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy, floating in the clouds like beneficent deities over a toylike neighborhood, were a joke, but he wasn't kidding.
In our own defence, the ascription of human qualities and mental states to non-human others may not simply be an inveterate habit of ours (e.g. personification of animals, natural phenomena or deities over millennia of storytelling), but a trait inherently 'wired' in our biology (Press 2011).
If you have brought something to offer to the deity, hand it over to the priest sitting just outside the idol's chamber.
Let us take a moment to give thanks to whichever deity watches over cinema for the gift of Kathryn Hahn.
A Chinese deity looks over the factory floor from behind a mound of partly burned incense sticks.
While his father and some others fell asleep, mice, attracted by the offerings placed before the image of the deity, ran over the image, polluting it.
From Howe's powerful opening line, "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord," the song celebrates some deity presiding over the nascent national conflict, "in the watch fires of a hundred circling camps".
"Throughout American history, there's been this belief that our country has a covenant with God and that a deity watches over America," says Michael Cromartie, vice president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington.
