A portrait painter is trying to capture a person's ineffable essence rather than a mirror image.
One of these said that the "ambiguity" of the final pages "makes the book rather like a mirror.
Rather than a mirror or TV screen, a large oil painting of yellow and blue swirls welcomes visitors, signaling that this is not your average Williamsburg bar.
"It's not so much like 'Survivor' but rather providing a mirror of what's going on in living rooms around the country".
He made use of masks, music, dance, and boldly abstract costume and scenery design in pursuit of a theatre that would offer the popular audience dreams, fantasy, and satire rather than a mirror of itself.
The interior is rather slapdash — a mirror here, a half-curtain there, a couple of primitivist portraits of Van Gogh — and indeed the most appealing thing about it is Philippe Lièvre, a compact man of 38 in a white chef's tunic who makes frequent forays from the kitchen to reassure himself that everyone's having a good time.
There, Depardieu plays a country priest, obsessed with evil, who offers his parishioners no consolation but, rather, a ruthless mirror of moral self-examination, which he applies to himself as well, with a scourge of physical self-punishment.
Rather than hold a mirror up to society, Dove tells us to hold a mirror up to ourselves, and to like what we see, or else.
Rather, they are a mirror of our humanity, and indicators of how distrust has become more entrenched throughout society.
