The Miller festival, by jettisoning chronology in favor of formal groupings (chamber works, songs, and so on), provided an unusually intimate encounter with a man who habitually presented a cool, circumspect profile to the world.
Figurative monuments are habitually presented as the populist choice: statuary or groups that freeze an emblematic moment, even when, as at the Iwo Jima flag-raising, that moment was itself conceived with commemorative publicity in mind.
In the introduction to his biography of Leonardo, he writes that "it is the task of this book to try to recover something of Leonardo the man – that is, Leonardo the real man, who lived in real time and ate real bowls of soup, as opposed to Leonardo the superhuman, multi-disciplinary 'Universal Man' with whom we are more habitually presented".
Many Tamils in Sri Lanka itself still see the government, not the Tigers, as their enemy.No eastern promiseGovernment spokesmen habitually present the struggle with the Tigers as simply the eradication of terrorists, who are as loathed by ordinary Tamils as they are by Sinhalese.
This is how we get to see the world differently from the way our own minds or culture habitually present it, and recognize that our customary outlook is not the only point of view.
As a professor of new media, I habitually present my students with a thought experiment: Try to imagine a different Facebook.
The same is clearly not true for desire; we habitually resist present-directed desires.
In an unusually candid effort at self-examination for a habitually insular agency, New York City Transit yesterday presented what could be called an index of straphanger frustration.
His ornate outfit, with a gold-trimmed black cape and upswept hat, combined with his ever-present dark glasses and habitually slurred speech, made him an easy target for caricaturists.
When she went to community meetings in places that had been habitually neglected by the city, she was presented with long lists of urgent needs that had gone unaddressed for years.
Getting Drunk And Crying at Camden's First Gay Wedding.
