And if that doesn't wound the self-image of a self-made Hollywood liberal, what would?
The self-image of a Christian continent persists, drawing lines between insider and outsider.
The change has not been easy, not for the people involved, not for the city government, not for the self-image of a place once so self-satisfied that it was called Smugtown.
Often facing down a hostile Arab world in cartoons published in the 1960's and 1970's, Srulik reflected the self-image of a small embattled nation, a perception that has faded as Israel has made peace with some of its neighbors and emerged as a regional power.
In addition to teaching and writing, Komunyakaa collaborated on several musical projects: with composer T.J. Anderson, he wrote librettos for the operas Slip Knot (2003), based on the historical testament of an enslaved African American man wrongly hanged for raping a white woman, and The Reincarnated Beethoven, based on a newspaper article about the self-image of a black teenager.
Between 1965 and 1997, Hitchens would have us believe, a creeping coup d'etat had taken place, a cultural revolution on a par with Mao Zedong's, against the institutions and mores that came to define the essence of Britishness over the centuries, from religious faith to sexual probity to the self-image of a nation that had fought valiantly in the name of freedom against Nazism.
For example, adopting Enrique Dussel's 1998 center/periphery distinction, Rabossi (2008, pp. 102ff.; see also his 1994) tells us that the Latin American philosopher is a "periphery philosopher," with the self-image of a 'guacho' (slang for 'orphan,' or even 'street urchin').
In addition, the self-image of a person's PA is assessed.
Thus the self-image of a surgeon can be maintained only in social contexts in which others are willing to recognize him or her in this identity.
The offices evoke the self-image of a multimedia entrepreneur and would-be titan: portraits of Orson Welles, Ronald Reagan and Walt Disney hang on the walls.
Its presence was palpable in the self-image of an ordinary embattled people rising to the occasion in countless ways, as if we were once more "out in some strange night caring for each other," as Ernie Pyle wrote of the G.I.'s he chronicled.
