The patient in the operating theatre, naked, her legs parted, is a graphic reminder of female defencelessness.

It could be written off as one more graphic reminder of a harsh, if not barbaric, period in Connecticut, and American, history.

As time has passed, they now serve as a graphic reminder of how good (or different) we looked way back then.

In the film, a car crash involving teen-agers provides a graphic reminder of the need to use seat belts.

The attack is also a graphic reminder of a simple but seemingly forgotten fact: The war is hardly over.

Built in 1786 and renovated in 1990, it serves as a graphic reminder of that cruel commerce.

The southern edge has been savagely logged right up to the park boundary, a graphic reminder of the struggle still under way for this land.

Such processions were a graphic reminder of the importance of order in this world and the beyond.

The map is a graphic reminder of just how perilous his neighborhood is.

As I walked down the echoing hallway, the graphic reminders of shuttle flights past covered the walls.