Sentences with phrase «portrait of a statesman»

As Afghanistan's election season marches on, Charles Tilly's unsavory portrait of statesmen as «coercive and self - seeking entrepreneurs» seems eerily resonant.

But Lincoln remains a formidable achievement: a portrait of a statesman that transcends expected pieties to make the liberalising impulse in public life live anew.

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Moreover, and contrary to the prevailing portrait, the position slowly and meticulously developed by Russell can not be dismissed merely as the inconsistent or ad hoc view of an elderly philosophic statesman in his mental decline.

«Without branding all generals and statesmen as murderers or thieves... a portrait of war makers and state makers as coercive and self - seeking entrepreneurs bears a far greater resemblance to the facts than do its chief alternatives: the idea of a social contract, the idea of an open market... the idea of a society whose shared norms and expectations call forth a certain kind of government.»

Today, a watercolor portrait of the late congressman hangs on the wall of Mr. Rangel's office in the Adam Clayton Powell Jr. building on 125th Street — where he recounted to the Observer how Rockefeller promised to pardon the elder statesman if the then - assemblyman could convince him to return to the city.

Her portraits of friends and colleagues — Mary Kelly, seen from the back with her beautiful hands fixing her hair in an iconic knot, or the soft, poignant face of John Baldessari, elder statesman of the Los Angeles art world — draw us in.

Michael Prodger retells the story of Charles I's art collection in the New Statesman, while in the New York Review of Books Colin B. Bailey describes the bonhomie adorable to be found Jean - Honoré Fragonard's «fantasy portraits» at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C..

He shot album covers for Downtown bands and made portraits of Downtown musical luminaries, as well as the Underground's elder statesmen, including William Burroughs, Kenneth Anger, and Jack Smith.

More than 30 years pass over the course of the show, beginning with such influential elder statesmen as Barkley Hendricks — whose striking late 1970s portraits blend classical tradition and Pop Art with seldom - seen African - American subjects — and Robert Colescott — whose wildly satirical takes on racial stereotypes in the 1980s get still more edge from his vibrantly expressionist brush.

When Griffin made commissioned portraits of businessmen and statesmen he invented a complex ironical approach so that the subjects can be read as sexy, inventive, oblivious, foolish, clever or pompous.

Priscilla gave a replica of Sir Thomas Lawrence's 1814 portrait of the Duke of Wellington as a «quasi-joke» to her late husband, Eddie, a serious admirer of the Anglo - Irish soldier and statesman.