pieta

One of the photographs in the exhibit was a modern-day pieta, with a hospital nurse holding in her lap an emaciated and nearly-naked patient who had died of HIV/AIDS.

Rev. Patrick S. Cheng, Ph.D.: Art, Censorship, and the Scandal of the Cross Ph.D. Rev. Patrick S. Cheng 2011

One of the photographs in the exhibit was a modern-day pieta, with a hospital nurse holding in her lap an emaciated and nearly-naked patient who had died of HIV/AIDS.

Rev. Patrick S. Cheng, Ph.D.: Art, Censorship, and the Scandal of the Cross Ph.D. Rev. Patrick S. Cheng 2011

In her two arias, "Come scoglio" and "Per pieta," Martinez displayed pristine high notes and an alluring lower register, while negotiating octave-wide leaps, runs, trills and more with grace.

James Conlon Celebrates 60th Birthday With Double Dose Of Mozart At Ravinia 2010

Her voice (giddy or quivering), her gestures (ebullient or devastated), her posture (vertical, expansive as in "I Love New York!" or slumped like an urban pieta) describe the volcanic feelings that develop and finally erupt in her world-weary soul.

James Scarborough: Stop Kiss, The Garage Theatre 2010

I don't know about you, Richard, I think you should be thinking about a ski house in the Rockies, or maybe a pieta tare (ph) in New York.

CNN Transcript Dec 22, 2009 2009

I think I especially love the pieta but so hard to choose...

Happy Mother's Day! Anxious Black Woman 2008

The pieta is one of the most powerful works of art.

Neuroesthetics James Gurney 2008

It's a pretty basic assignment that asks only that one read fairly carefully; the key is that our culture tends to use Christic imagery that's either pathos-filled (the pieta and suffering/crucifixion imagery) or pastoral (the Jesus hanging out with little children or teaching imagery), while the poem's imagery is more heroic:

Archive 2007-01-01 Bardiac 2007

Case study number one: The NYTimes and the Lebanese pieta

Think Progress » Fox Military Analyst on Syria: ‘We Can Talk To Them When We Line Them Up and Kill Them’ 2006

Hence the "good mother" is imagined as a source of perfect sympathy, a fantasy like that inscribed in the notion of the Virgin Mary as "fons pieta."

'Mummy, possest': Sadism and Sensibility in Shelley's _Frankenstein_ 2003