单词 | image man |
释义 | > as lemmasimage man image man n. (a) Theology and Metaphysics a human being considered as an image of God or (rarely) of an ideal archetype; (b) a man who makes or sells images; (c) a man who promotes a client's public image; (d) a man sensitive to his public image or with a deliberately created public image. ΚΠ 1694 M. Tindal Let. conc. Trinity & Athanasian Creed ix. 29 He saith an Image-man is distinct from the Original Man, and yet the same with him. 1807 C. I. M. Dibdin Mirth & Metre 157 (title) The Image Man. 1829 S. T. Coleridge Notebks. (2002) V. 6155 He made me in his own image: Well then & with highest reason may the Image-man speak to the divine Anti-type to the God-man, as a Man. 1895 T. Hardy Jude ii. iii. 112 She offered considerably less, and to her surprise the image-man drew them from their wire stay and handed them over the stile. 1917 F. B. Dowd Way 96 The Father is magnetic spirit; and the image man is also magnetic in a less degree with the further capacity of acquiring more from the Father. 1936 J. F. Copeland Every Day but Sunday xi. 135 The ‘Image’ man, who..wore on his shoulders a sort of framed board with a hole through which his head protruded. 1968 J. B. Priestley (title) The image men. 1975 F. Rahman tr. Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Shirāzī in Philos. Mullā Ṣadrā iv. 236 The First Man has strong and manifest perceptual faculties surpassing those of the image-man here. a1983 M. Acorn in R. Lemm Milton Acorn in Love & Anger (1999) 24 The image-man, His very soul wired And tugged into shape By advertisers. 2002 M. S. Friedman Martin Buber (ed. 4) iii. xiv. 99 The image man..is primarily concerned with what the other thinks of him. 2003 Omaha (Nebraska) World Herald (Nexis) 22 Oct. 1 b Omaha image man Sonny Mares says the city's new slogan—‘O!’—isn't really a slogan. < as lemmas |
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