They were available for the beholders' interpretation and reinterpretation; they represented and could be made to re-present.
Once the royal standard was raised, loyal poets faced a new opportunity and need to re-present the king.
What we see, how we assign meaning to what we see, and what we choose to re-present, are determined by our cultural, moral, ethical, political and educational mentality.
Why re-present the whole package now, as if nothing had happened, instead of opting for the only reasonable course?
The whole point about democracy is that if people lose an argument, they have the right and ability to re-present that argument.
The evidence shows that many people who drop out of treatment programmes subsequently re-present themselves.
They tried to re-present the arguments to the public for privatisation, but re-presentation of the arguments will not work.
I have always understood that accountants have one apparent ability; namely, to absorb, digest and to re-present figures and financial information.