In the late 1950s, he would set about redefining it in his own, flawed image.
Outrage over subway graffiti eventually underwrote the flawed, image-first "broken windows" theory of city management, which argued that any visible traces of petty vandalism fostered an all-enabling atmosphere of criminality.
Professor Hatfield thinks that the flawed popular image of Michelangelo as a person toiling without reward has as much to do with the kinds of narratives that admirers of artists prefer.
The efforts at contrition were, inevitably, limited and flawed; but the image of the white-clad pope asking for forgiveness was indelible, and it seemed possible that the process would give rise to a spirit of metanoia, or conversion of heart, in the church worldwide.
Demonstrating God's love, Jesus affirmed the divine image in flawed humans of every background: a Samaritan woman of ill repute; a wealthy man, Zacchaeus, who exploited the poor, and a Roman centurion or military leader whose son needed healing.
The volume of work and its difficulty will exceed even that of the first Hubble service mission, in 1993, when astronauts had to install a corrective lens to fix distorted images from the flawed main mirror.
Was the union of LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh an inherently flawed project, conceived in the image of the Boston Celtics' Big Three while ignorant of the evidence that Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen formed a far more complementary trio?
He has been pulled off of his pedestal and stripped back to the image of a flawed and unsympathetic elderly man.
His machines link powerful PC's to video equipment, processing the images quickly to spot flawed items on assembly lines.
