Few issues antagonize the relationship between Pakistan and the United States as much as the drone program does — or encapsulate the often contradictory, smoke-and-mirrors nature of the military-to-military relationship.
The highway future was sold in spectacles like Norman Bel Geddes's Futurama exhibit at the 1939 World's Fair, the smoke-and-mirrors nature of which was suggested by another Bel Geddes exhibit, a bit of reflective wizardry in which "a single dancing girl appears to be a whole chorus of World's Fairettes".
They mirror nature but always retain their gleaming industrial artifice.
Nineteenth-century Romantic writers espoused Shakespeare's use of tragicomedy in the belief that his plays closely mirrored nature, and they used him as a model for their works.
The upshot of Quine's and Sellars' criticisms of the myths and dogmas of epistemology is, Rorty suggests, that "we see knowledge as a matter of conversation and of social practice, rather than as an attempt to mirror nature".
The difference between human beings and other animals, plants or mineral structures is that, (1) human beings are able to understand the fact that they, as an organism, mirror Nature's organic structure; and furthermore, (2) they are capable of reproducing nature's creativity through art, as well as reflecting upon this fact.
The analysis was prophetic, as the critic John Berger later explained that the Demoiselles initiated a new era of conceptual art, in which paintings would no longer mirror nature, but would instead function as diagrams symbolic representations of invisible forces and structures.
In a sense, the researchers are mirroring nature by applying multiple solutions to a complex problem.
It holds up a mirror to nature, but this mirror came from a funhouse and in its distortions reveals a deeper truth. .
