21.   But the popular image of ragtime today is largely that of a jaunty, sweetly tinkling piano soundtrack to a sepia-tinted world of shirtwaists and bowler hats.

22.   Contrary to the popular image, this Spurs team has indeed been one of the toughest in the league.

23.   Despite the popular image of sand dunes engulfing fertile land, desertification typically is not the natural expansion of existing deserts.

24.   Despite its popular image, he said, old age, for him, is hardly a dreary time.

25.   Experts say the closing of the gap in high school graduation rates between blacks and whites belies popular images of hopelessness and despair in inner-city schools.

26.   Glass workshops routinely cribbed popular images, sometimes cobbling together parts of several to please their art-literate, bourgeois clientele.

27.   Gore has worked hard to turn back the popular image of him as a stiff, wooden speaker immersed in the technicalities of government.

28.   It accurately portrayed the popular image of what creativity means and how inspiration arises and how writers actually write.

29.   It was an idealized image popular in the North.

30.   It tries to supplant popular images of Gore as understudy to Clinton with images of him as understudy to his more principled father.