Sentences with phrase «more sympathetic portrait»

A more sympathetic portrait is given by Erica Beamer in Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli's Lifelong Quest for Freedom (Allen Lane).
One of the first British writers to attempt a more sympathetic portrait was Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881), who saw Muhammad as a genuine hero among the prophets.

Not exact matches

Even more paradoxically, for a notoriously tough, unsentimental genre, Ray's film presents a sympathetic portrait of the doomed outlaw lovers, who, as the opening credits affirm, «were never properly introduced to the world we live in.»
His apparent freak show turns out to be a sympathetic portrait of his mother — even more so in a sly and funny video not in the show.
Generally speaking, modern taste has been more sympathetic towards the Nazarenes» sensitive landscape painting and portrait art, rather than their didactic figure painting.
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