Today, Zoe is looking for dresses for Keira Knightley's Pirates of the Caribbean 3 premiere - and other dresses generally: she looks out for feminine things for Mischa, more edgy things for Lindsay, black or white things for Kate Beckinsale.
The white thing stands in for or is an instantiation of whiteness; white is re-presented in the object.
"People act like art is a white thing – or not for people of colour – when really so much culture and art comes from people of colour.
"I think a lot of the stigma changed from it being a predominantly white thing, to being for everybody," said Sheldon Thompson, 20, of Flatbush, one of the more experienced skateboarders at the museum.
The reason appears to be that he disagrees with the truth-condition given above for 'A white thing was black', and similar cases.
— cf., e.g., Albert of Saxony: "For 'A white thing can be black' signifies that what is white or what can be white can be black" (my translation).[30] No, for this loses the sense in which it is self-contradictory to suggest that it is possible that a white thing be black.
There she was, black hair centre-parted, steel-blue eyes facing down the reader, clutch ing a bouquet of camelias that vied with her ivory visage for the most white thing on view.
Ms. Loomer supplies plenty of spot-on details: the nanny-cam, a teddy bear with a camera hidden inside to spy on the nanny while the mother is out; the disdain a nanny feels for tofu, "the white thing that looks like somebody ate it already".
For example, 'A white thing was black' means that something which is now white or was white in the past was black.
Our brains compensate for it automatically, so that a white thing will look white under any light.
