public image

“Nabokov was well aware of the absurdity of the public image of the lepidopterist wielding a butterfly net, but nobody has succeeded like him in evoking the ethereal magic of moths and butterflies.”

Simon & Schuster: Wildwood

“For his part, Berger believed that Albright was at times more interested in managing her public image than worrying about the substance of policya concern Clinton apparently shared.”

Simon & Schuster: In the Shadow of the Oval Office

“Bin Laden carefully tends his public image as “the Sheikh,” a heroic warrior-monk who is not only fearless on the battlefield but can also recite the entire Koran from memory and writes his own poetry.”

Simon & Schuster: The Longest War

“What sort of public image will I present, fleeing down Park Lane in a gent’s mac and a fur rug, both the property of my pursuer?””

Killer Dolphin

“These days, apparently, even preachers had a public image to up-hold — an image that probably wouldn’t need the world to know that the good preacher himself had worked through his own”

Shiver