It represents a desire to render oneself into an image as seductive and enduring as a sphinx.
In the 16th century, Judeo-German (Yiddish) came to replace Hebrew as the language of Jewish tales and legends in Europe, primarily because of the desire to render them accessible to women unschooled in the sacred tongue.
But the musical never really resolves the tension between its impulse to entertain us with hoary jokes and quivering tambourines and the desire to render the harsh morals of its story with earnest insistence.
When Sir Arthur Blomfield, the London architect entrusted with designing Georgetown's Anglican cathedral, expressed a desire to render his work in stone, he was told firmly by the local colonial authorities that he had to use timber.
FORMALDEHYDE fumes from the biology lab down the hall tease the office door of James Beck, a Columbia art history professor, but this is happenstance, not a desire to render the inhabitant mute as a pickled pig, which one might expect.
His apparent pleasure in depicting violence — and his apparent desire to render the violence moral through the narrative of liberation from a cruelly oppressive and wantonly violent authority — runs the risk of being taken as a wake-up call in a place that is so cavalierly indifferent to rights, including of its minorities.
The skill is in getting your audience to collude with it, a tough call: for every song that temporarily convinces listeners that they wish it could be Christmas every day, there are dozens that fill you with a desire to render yourself comatose with alcohol until the festive season is over and people stop playing them.
Summerson writes that, in the spirit of the Enlightenment, the notion of 'bienfaisance', literally meaning the desire to render society more reasonable and more humane, liberated the scope of both hospital and prison planning.
The Nerdrum School remains true to their desire to render their story in paint.
