Sentence examples for represented war from inspiring English sources

As British artists represented war and empire at home, British agents abroad pursued another kind of cultural imperialism, by collecting and surveying art, architecture and antiquities.

The first three concerts loosely told the story of heading in and out of war: Tchaikovsky's Pathétique Symphony took the audience into darkness; Shostakovich's Eighth Symphony represented war; while Mahler's uplifting vision of creation, his Eighth Symphony, ended the triptych in a blaze of hope.

They have represented war and destruction, doom, the void, annihilation, death.

The photojournalist heroine of Soli's Vietnam War novel ponders whether those who represent war merely replicate its violence.

Inspired by the Jules Naudet film shot on 9/11, he means to investigate "ways of representing war".

On the east and west sides of the monument, fountains cascade from two huge statuary groups, representing war and peace.

With the speech "O for a muse of fire," Shakespeare starts his play "Henry V" with words about the challenge for theater of trying to represent war.

Nearby lives a colleague of her late husband, a foreign correspondent who is taking a break from Bosnia and Afghanistan to write a book about "ways of representing war".

Of this history, "Flyboys" makes a soppy fantasy, representing war with approximately the level of realism marshaled by "Team America: World Police".

War is seen as something men do, inveterately, undeterred by the accumulation of suffering it inflicts; to represent war in words or in pictures requires a keen, unflinching detachment.

"It was never my aim to represent war, until it came into my house," he said, referring to the July 2006 Israeli invasion of Lebanon when he, like many others, witnessed the bombardments first hand.