The stock character of the stage mother has often been an object of cinematic derision veering to pathos (as in Luchino Visconti's "Bellissima," from 1951).
Though he did not say so explicitly, the theme was distinctly autobiographical, as he has often been the object of withering criticism for his conservative views that are at odds with the views of most other black Americans.
Emerging strategic industries, such as biotechnology, new energy and advanced equipment manufacturing has often been the research object.
Beginning with the ancient Egyptians, who lopped off the noses of statues of dead pharaohs, through the toppling of statues of Lenin and Saddam Hussein, violence has often been directed against offending objects, though rarely against the artists who made them.
A branchless tree has often been transformed into a cultic object: a sacrificial post, such as the Vedic yupa; the central pole of a nomadic tent in Siberia and Central Asia, the yurt (ger), or initiation hut; or a parasol shaft (chattravali) in the Buddhist stupas (buildings) and the Japanese and Chinese pagodas.
Like sneakers, an office chair is an everyday object that has often been engineered out of all proportion to its size or function.
She has often been overambitious.
"It has often been tried.
He has often been exploited".
"It was very necessary to do this because women had often been painted as objects of desire in humiliating poses.
