These are images, shocking in the context, that are typical of Ai's work: sharply critical of the all-powerful Communist regime that runs China with an iron fist, but also imbued with the compassion that has made the artist/philosopher such a popular figure.
"President Mandela was a remarkable example to us, to our foundation, and to the whole world thanks to a life imbued with courage, dedication and compassion.
Her answer, based on the rabbinic sources, is that the experience of slavery created us as a people eternally and essentially imbued with the principles of compassion and empathy for "the other".
If the NTC inaugurated local and national tribunals imbued with President Mustafa Abdel Jalil's spirit of compassion and even-handedness, perpetrators of corruption could openly come forward admitting their crimes and seeking forgiveness.
The most famous and prolific short-story writer, Aléxandros Papadiamándis, produced a wealth of evocations of his native island of Skiáthos imbued with a profound sense of Christian tradition and a compassion for country folk; his novel I fónissa (1903; The Murderess) is a fine study in psychological abnormality.
Vampires are imbued with romance.
She is imbued with rationalism, tolerance, progressivism.
Yes, I am imbued with surrealism.
For many, Zionism was now imbued with eschatological significance.
Yet the book is also imbued with nostalgia.
Dolezal's transracialism was imbued with exactly the opposite undertaking.
