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presentation

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The act of presenting, or the state of being presented; a setting forth; an offering; bestowal.

exhibition; representation; display; appearance; semblance; show.

That which is presented or given; a present; a gift, as, the picture was a presentation.

The act of offering a clergyman to the bishop or ordinary for institution in a benefice; the right of presenting a clergyman.

The particular position of the child during labor relatively to the passage though which it is to be brought forth; -- specifically designated by the part which first appears at the mouth of the uterus; as, a breech presentation.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart. Learned Hand

I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty. Barbara Kruger

A presentation copy...is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning of it; for which, if a stranger, he only demands your friendship; if a brother author, he expects from you a book of yours, which does not sell, in return. Charles Lamb

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. Edward Gibbon

A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another. To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them. Gilbert Ryle

The presentation of the Golden Badge of the Movement is the highest honor the Third Reich has to offer. Hjalmar Schacht

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