"Someone once wrote that my jewellery is like weaponary for women as it has a hard, fierce image," she says.
Recently he saw a fierce image of an ancient goddess of Carthage that bore an uncanny resemblance to his relic -- but again, no one can verify that connection.
It's just one of this surprising and rewarding novel's virtues that, as that almost fierce image suggests, we are not meant to see a character's reading as an automatic sign of her goodness or her higher purpose in life.
Blanka Amezkua appropriates the female protagonists from Mexican comic books, converting their fierce images into large, robust embroideries that exude a fiery formal wit without being overly beholden to Roy Lichtenstein.
Online bloggers, news Web sites and writers covered the aftermath, with some saying that computer games should not be held responsible for inspiring real-life killing and that military forces have often wore masks or balaclavas on battlefields, or painted fierce images on to warplanes.
In shocking people with so many fierce images at once, the New Yorker has handed Barack Obama an opportunity to score three timely victories.
In higher-security prisons, like the ones where I began serving my sentence, the men projected fiercer images; instead of making nice, they kept to themselves and were standoffish to newcomers.
Apparent inanimacy did not keep this dark and fierce-eyed image of Christ from walking periodically from its perch at night and reclining in adjacent fields.
The enormous space of the main upstairs gallery is covered floor to lintel in capital letters 10 and even 20 feet high, in black, white and bright green that blaze and glare, leaving fierce after-images on the retina.
But Hunger shows that McQueen is a real film-maker and his background in art has meant a fierce concentration on image, an unflinching attention to what things looked like, moment by moment.
It left me, in fact, with an image from "Fierce Attachments," in which Gornick describes with rapture another voice, another story, another fight — that of the writer Josephine Herbst, American novelist, Old Left radical, and anarchist in her own genetic right, "a stubborn willful raging woman grabbing at politics and love and writing, in there punching until the last minute".
