Trying to describe the instability of the actor's life, even one as successful as his own, he reached for an anthropomorphic image: "You stand like a horse in a field waiting for the phone to ring."

Joanna grinned unwillingly at the anthropomorphic image.

Apart from anthropomorphic images of Shiva, the worship of Shiva in the form of a lingam, or linga, is also important.

The Glory is, according to the author, what the prophets saw, what yields angels and anthropomorphic images of deity.

Though Hinduism is commonly represented by anthropomorphic religious images, aniconism is equally represented with such abstract symbols of God such as the Shiva linga and the saligrama.

Garth was, too: foursquare, desperate to please, and he seemed to have an anthropomorphic image of the corporate personality.

His more manifest aspects are represented in anthropomorphic images.

It includes an anthropomorphic image of a lion, alluding to Rabbi Luria's acronym Ari, which means lion.

Evidence of burial with grave goods and the appearance of anthropomorphic images and cave paintings may suggest that humans in the Upper Paleolithic had begun to believe in supernatural beings.

"The Victorians particularly liked anthropomorphic images," he continued.