Wilton Manors is to urban revitalization what "Will and Grace" was to prime-time television -- proof that people may be more accepting of gays than polls suggest.
In the show's second season, bad baseball has made for better television, providing proof for one of the general rules of reality TV.
The fact that soap operas have thrived on television is proof that a majority of women enjoy broad, cartoonish, predictable entertainment.
If radio is said to have better pictures than television, the proof is in listening to Wogan describing the sun rising over London's rooftops.
The popularity of the N.F.L. draft on television is proof that millions of people can be riveted by the sight of Commissioner Roger Goodell reading index cards and posing beside the men whose names he has announced.
All told, the current value of the stack of bills displayed on Syrian television as proof of foreign support for the rebels would appear to be far less than one American dollar — if, that is, the rebels could find someone inside Syria to accept old Israeli shekels or Philippine pesos in exchange for anything of value.
(Reynolds adds the telling detail that the famous image of a lone Tiananmen Square protester standing before a column of tanks, viewed abroad as a symbol of individualistic defiance, was shown on Chinese television as proof positive of the Chinese Army's restraint).
Much of the argument I encountered at the time was that when we invaded Iraq and killed Saddam's sons, we showed their dead bodies on American television as proof.
Television gave pleasurable proof to the French of the "three day spectacle in de Gaulle's honor".
He seemed to feel that the fact that Nixon made a number of takes when recording television commercials was proof of a deep inauthenticity.
She points to her own publication, and to some programs on NTV, the independent television network, as proof that not all news outlets parrot government pronouncements.
