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Students and colleagues remembered him with affection , and their memoirs portray him as intelligent and wise , stern but kind , the model of the kindly Oxford don . The gospels portray him as resisting all temptations to privilege , and this renunciation allowed outcasts to approach him and to belong to his open circle without fear . A wooden bust shows the king as a young and very human figure , while exquisite gilded statuettes portray him as the ruler of all Egypt . But he does n't tell you what you want to hear , so you dismiss him as an extremely biased partisan . Movies portray him as a man whose sole purpous in life was to fight against injustice in Roman slavery , but they often disregard his personal emotions . ) When Noah and Allie first meet at a carnival in a North Carolina town in 1940 , he 's a kid from the wrong side of the tracks , and she 's a golden girl whose parents dismiss him as a passing summer fancy . If they doubt his ability to make his murders successful for maintaining his power , and thus extorting money from his people in future , they dismiss him as unceremoniously as they would dismiss any other hopeless bankrupt , who should want to borrow money to save himself from open insolvency . Accounts of Ruffin portray him as a kind and jovial fellow , most remembered for the time he fell off a steamboat and almost drowned . Or will the same forces quickly consume him as well ? Steven Spielberg is the director or producer of over one third of the thirty highest grossing films of all time , yet most film scholars dismiss him as little more than a modern P. T. Barnum - - a technically gifted and intellectually shallow showman who substitutes spectacle for substance . Western media often dismiss him as " Beijing 's puppet , " as do some Hong Kong politicians . We conceive him as the incarnate Word , and begin to look upon his glory , as the glory of the only begotten of the Father , full of grace and truth . His far-reaching influence as a teacher includes participating in dozens of invited public presentations that often feature him as a keynote speaker , writing several papers that directly address pedagogical issues , and authoring textbooks used in hundreds of colleges and universities .