Dionysius adopts the word theurgy, "god-work", together with theology, "god-word", to describe the inmost reality of this practice, adopting it from the later Neoplatonist understanding of a hidden sympathy or interconnectedness between material things and the sacred, divine significances resident in them by virtue of divine power.
The country seems to excel at this type of hard-boiled material; there seems to be a distinctively Korean style emerging here and in previous releases like Nowhere to Hide, Sympathy for Mr Vengeance, and Bad Guy - a combination of art film sensibilities and commercial slickness, with a tone that floats somewhere between tragedy, horror and absurdity.
The police had no warrant and made no charges, but Mr. Chartrand had hardly hidden his sympathies.
Whatever Perry's hidden environmental sympathies may be, his staying power at the top of Texas politics – he was the longest-serving governor in state history – indicates a basic loyalty to the top energy interest in the state, which for decades fielded a national football league team called the Oilers.
Mr Abou Jahjah, who has organised "lively" pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Antwerp and who doesn't hide his sympathies with groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas, would seem, however, to mark a change in tactics.
Other prominent Mafia bosses like Giuseppe Genco Russo, Gaetano Filippone, Michele Navarra and Francesco Paolo Bontade did not hide their sympathies for the separatists either.
The corrupt magistrate was played by the Italian stage's leading traditional actor, Giorgio Albertazzi, who had never hidden his rightwing sympathies.
I tried to hide my shock, sympathy and pity from her.
He wrote for the Journal des Débats and the Journal de Paris, and, when he made no attempt to hide his monarchist sympathies in reporting the trial and death of Louis XVI (1792 93), his life was imperiled.
But they do not try hard to hide their Nazi sympathies: a recent report in Der Spiegel noted that the Germanic Elhaz rune, the symbol of the Third Reich's "Lebensborn" programme, which supported the production of racially pure Aryan children, hangs above the entrance of their office.
The other, painted during a time when sympathies for Savonarola had to be hidden, portrays him as a smiling St. Peter the Martyr.
