Sentence examples for representation thing from inspiring English sources

Discriminatory rental car taxes provide seemingly consequence-free funding -- as well as a convenient way to get around that whole "taxation without representation" thing.

"There is a brilliant quote from White Teeth by Zadie Smith," explains Shukla, "that goes, 'There was England, a gigantic mirror, and there was Irie, without reflection.' I think that really sums up the representation thing.

"It really is a taxation-without-representation thing up here," said John Quenell, a year-round resident of Lower St. Regis Lake in the Adirondacks and a councilman in the Town of Brighton, N.Y.

He suffers from extreme visual agnosia and is unable to distinguish between things and the representation of things.

In this work you see Sir Anthony inching back towards the representation of things once more.

(Both involve the condensation and displacement of meanings, the representation of things by their opposites, the triumph of fallacy over logic — all to outwit the inner censor).

The first statement mocks worthy discussions of diversity, which have nothing to do with increasing the representation of things that are dominant in our culture.

While it lacks representation of things like blogs and social media, it contains a highly comprehensive sample of what we might think of as the traditional media.

We're mainly interested in issues of cultural representation, how things are represented to the public, and what's the ideology and the subtext to how something is being represented".

"My new work 'Lebende Bilder' takes its name from nineteenth-century tableaus enacting staged scenes, and attempts to unpack the idea of the still-life genre as studio practice and representation of things consumed," Yola Monakhov wrote.

But elsewhere Wright seems to place far greater faith in things than in their representations ("A thing is not an image, / imagination's second best") and to mock the notion that the abstract imagination could ever be preferable to the physical world's adamant particulars.