That rise is causing considerable angst in a nation whose self-image is staunchly egalitarian.
This has always been a land whose self-image is woven with contradictions.
I never knew anyone whose self-image was so different from the reality".
For the filmmaker whose self-image was formed at the Cinémathèque, the archive is a sort of external hard drive — not second-hand proof but, strangely, first-person experience.
The Americans, so powerful and confident, so attractive and so clueless, are regarded with ambivalence by the Romanians (including the director), whose self-image combines a sense of grievance with a certain stiff-necked pride.
It is a challenge for all EU institutions, whose self-image as enlightened vanguards is not reflected in that fast-growing body of opinion in member state countries where they are seen as arrogant bullies.
Many in the deaf community say these less-than-perfect devices can turn a healthy deaf person — who learned to communicate using sign language, lip reading or both — into someone with a hearing handicap whose self-image may be undermined.
But if globalization's electronic forms have made scant inroads here, that has not stopped this town from showing Japan, a country whose self-image is of an island nation unto itself, that internationalization begins with both hearty and heartfelt neighborliness.
"Her images of Jawaharlal Nehru addressing a jubilant crowd in Delhi, and of the body of Mohandas K. Gandhi being prepared for cremation, give a vivid sense of the mood of a nation whose self-image was cast in a romantic epic mold," Holland Cotter wrote in The New York Times in a 1997 review of a show in Queens, New York, that featured Ms. Vyarawalla's work.
"Her images of Jawaharlal Nehru addressing a jubilant crowd in Delhi, and of the body of Mohandas K. Gandhi being prepared for cremation, give a vivid sense of the mood of a nation whose self-image was cast in a romantic epic mold," Holland Cotter wrote in The New York Times in 1997 in a review of a show in Queens that featured Ms. Vyarawalla's work.
