By his time deacons apparently were no longer mere dispensers of the church's charities, as they are depicted in the Acts of the Apostles.
On a lush lawn with a Victorian house in the background, the sisters pose, drawn in various scales, sometimes nude, sometimes clad, at one point depicted in erotic acts behind a window of the house.
During the first five seasons, according to the Parents Television Council in the US, 24 depicted 67 acts of torture.
Instead of depicting soldiers in the Peninsular War engaging in acts of wanton cruelty, the Chapmans used fibreglass mannequins of pre-teen children with their features distended by penises.
The decision-making procedure depicted in the discussion of "weighing" is tantamount to act consequentialism.
One of the classics, "Red Angel," by Yasuzo Masumura, from 1966, newly released by the enterprising San Francisco-based distributor Fantoma, goes farther than "Letters from Iwo Jima" in depicting extraordinary acts of depravity and humanity within the ranks of the Imperial Army.
A psychiatrist testified that the sexual acts depicted in the film were "well within the bounds of normal behavior".
But several of the soldiers charged said later acts depicted in photographs, like piling prisoners naked or forcing them to masturbate, had nothing to do with interrogations.
More commonly, though, rulers are depicted in action, specifically in the act of hunting.
"If the veterinarian actually committed the act depicted in the photo, she is in violation of the state cruelty code," reads the complaint, which was provided to HuffPost.
