PARIS — In the world of luxury brands, Hermès International has cultivated an image of purity by remaining true to its roots, shunning the mass production and outsourcing that many rivals have employed to improve profitability.
Indeed, many of these candidates have somehow invoked an image of purity, a sense that they were fighting a system that is corrupt to the core, and Mr. Nader, the consumer advocate and Green Party presidential nominee, fits firmly into this tradition.
And is it possible that Bill Cosby, the very image of purity in America, was in fact the villain?
Yet perhaps Helen Keller's real untold story is this: her triumph over multiple disabilities and her enormous celebrity had trapped her within a constricting saintliness and an image of purity.
The ISIS allusions to Abd al-Wahhab and Juhayman (whose dissident writings are circulated within ISIS) present a powerful provocation: they hold up a mirror to Saudi society that seems to reflect back to them an image of "purity" lost and early beliefs and certainties displaced by shows of wealth and indulgence.
It seems as though the public is more interested in forgiving and moving along, infused with a desire to see their heroes perform, warts and all; while the league is more interested in belatedly pursuing the many who have tainted the image of purity of the national pastime.
I am writing to make a correction to Sam Hall Kaplan's review in the Los Angeles Times (Book Review, June 30) of Spiro Kostof's book, "A History of Architecture". Mr. Kaplan asserts to be an error the "explanation that the Coca-Cola bottling plant in Los Angeles was designed in the style of a sleek ocean liner because it lent the company an image of purity.
Also detected are a few errors, such as the description of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village in New York as high-rise public housing, and the explanation that the Coca-Cola bottling plant in Los Angeles was designed in the style of a sleek ocean liner because it lent the company an image of purity.
With his gaunt, bearded old face he projects an image of moral purity that would have had the same impact 100 years ago as it does today.
On Thursday the heart leapt with Susanne Grinder's Hilda, an image of transcendent purity both amid the trolls and when restored to her original home.
