It's been a long time since Americans serving their country were routinely depicted in films as the good guys.

Shopping is routinely depicted as a fun activity in the media, but as many as one out of 20 Americans is affected by compulsive shopping disorder.

Warriors may have commanded top status in the Edo period, but farmers and laborers insured economic stability, and they were routinely depicted in art.

Chicago police officers are routinely depicted on the television series, ER.

Mr. Mojadeddi, a former president and religious scholar routinely depicted as a moderate, was having none of it.

Black women have been routinely depicted as hypersexual, yet they barely appear in this book, and even contemporary stereotypes of Asian seductresses are excluded in Groneman's focus on the white middle class.

Mufti Ravil Gainutdin, the council's chairman, said the government needed to do more, complaining that state television routinely depicted Muslims collectively as radicals waging holy war against Russia, rather than as members of Russian society.

In the Muslim and Arab press, Jews are routinely depicted as stereotypical hook-nosed, greedy and manipulative killers.

In mainstream journalism and even more so in popular entertainment, President Clinton is routinely depicted in the most unflattering terms: a liar, a fraud, a chronically indecisive man who cannot be trusted to stand for anything - or with anyone.

To evoke the atmosphere of New York City, film makers once routinely depicted subway cars smeared with graffiti.