"It almost doesn't matter who you cast, in a sense, because he's just a representation of humanity".
This was in accord with one of the leading ideas of the period, primitivism, the representation of humanity's supposed heart of darkness.
This is a shame; a series of elevated exhibitionists being pelted with grilled meat would have been about as accurate a representation of humanity as anyone could ever have hoped for.
It was his most important statement of spirituality, a "symbolic representation of humanity's search for peace that can only be discovered through religious feeling, collectively and personally," the Beethoven scholar Lewis Lockwood wrote.
This geographic tour of the world rests on a very 19th-century concept of what a map is.Kaplan defines it as "the spatial representation of humanity's divisions," by which he means not just a representation of physical territory, but of topography.
The Bulletin created the "Doomsday Clock," a symbolic representation of humanity's proximity to apocalyptic destruction.
The person or people who did this, anyone who commits massive acts of violence, should not and cannot serve as a representation of humanity.
In January, Mecklin's group, which created the so-called "Doomsday Clock" ― a symbolic representation of humanity's proximity to apocalyptic destruction ― moved the clock's minute hand 30 seconds closer to midnight, the hour symbolizing global catastrophe.
This, she wrote in her book, is what gave the music its tremendous power to "move audiences through representations of its own humanity".
Over the next 100 days a self-selecting group of supposedly normal people will occupy the plinth for an hour at a time to produce "a representation of the whole of humanity".
