Sentences with phrase «sympathetic portrait»

Anthony Head's far more sympathetic portrait of Geoffrey Howe is considered and believable.
While «I, Tonya» may, or may not, change the public's deep rooted opinion of Tonya Harding as an individual; it does successfully paint a deeper, more sympathetic portrait of her than the one - dimensional villain and punchline image that has metastasized within our pop culture consciousness over the past 23 years.
In his new biography of Whitefield, Thomas Kidd attempts to restore him to his proper place as America's foremost early Evangelical, providing a clear - eyed yet sympathetic portrait in the process.
While condemning the bungled operation and the poorly executed cover - up which followed, Walter is able to draw sympathetic portraits of the federal agents involved at the scene and to mourn the loss of federal marshal William Degan no less than the deaths of Vicky and Samuel Weaver.
The resulting documentary, Finding Vivian Maier, might better have been titled Constructing Vivian Maier — not because the filmmakers came up empty - handed, but because what they found out sheds too neat and tidy a light on her unsparing, yet warmly sympathetic portraits of the denizens of Chicago's seamy underside.
Something worth considering is how folks will take what may end up as a partially sympathetic portrait of reviled political figures.
One interesting takeaway from this trailer is that Waco will attempt to paint a somewhat sympathetic portrait of Branch Davidian leader David Koresh (played by Taylor Kitsch), who was often portrayed more as an unhinged cult leader in the press stories surrounding the stand - off.
The Pathos section of Condo's exhibition shows sympathetic portraits of characters struggling through life.
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.
A few plotty scenes aside, this quietly directed drama paints a sensitive, sympathetic portrait of modern malaise, and also has a smart sense of humor.
«I wouldn't call it a sympathetic portrait — in many ways, Nixon was a deeply unsympathetic person — but it is an empathetic one,» Gates adds.
What he offers is a sympathetic portrait of a city managing its own decline and groping its way toward a new 21st - century identity, a struggle that's playing out in a number of Rust Belt cities, from Cleveland to Gary, Ind., to Hamilton.
Evangelicals should welcome his sympathetic portrait, while others can learn from and enjoy it.
The Pride of St. Louis, starring my late uncle, Dan Dailey, as Dizzy Dean, could be viewed as a «soupy biography» or, in a better light, as a sympathetic portrait of a true American character.
A more sympathetic portrait is given by Erica Beamer in Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli's Lifelong Quest for Freedom (Allen Lane).
For those who weren't, popcorn boxes will be crushed with anger and frustration at a sympathetic portrait of a divisive PM.
With commentary from family and historians, as well as old interviews with Lamarr, Bombshell paints a sympathetic portrait of a woman troubled by her superficial reputation and yearning for recognition of her scientific intellect.
The Iceman is neither a sympathetic portrait nor a redemption film.
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.»
Evidently, he liked what he saw: a tribute to the crusading investigative journalists who brought the Pentagon Papers to the public, despite threats of jail time and worse from the Nixon White House, and a sympathetic portrait of a woman, The Washington Post's Katharine Graham, who in the course of this episode assumed the full authority that men had thought she couldn't wield.
She returns to the subject of maternity with «Tully,» but there's a crucial difference this time: Cody has three kids of her own now, an experience that informs her painfully funny and sympathetic portrait of postpartum exhaustion.
A few plotty scenes aside, this quietly directed drama paints a sensitive, sympathetic portrait of modern malaise, and has a smart sense of humor as a bonus.
It's a sympathetic portrait, but not a particularly flattering one.
When a person's legacy — outside of the rumors of being an unnatural, diabolical monster that feeds on the blood of the living — consists of a penchant for hoisting one's enemies on spiked posts, we don't expect a sympathetic portrait of that person.
In her young career, Arnold has already proven herself to be a master of social realism, evoking the work of Mike Leigh and Ken Loach; and she invests her sympathetic portraits of dead - end lives with a poetic, earthy sensibility all her own.
Payne has often been criticized for making fun of small - town folks; there is some of that in Nebraska, but I see it mostly as a loving and sympathetic portrait of a town that has been left behind.
This sympathetic portrait offers an engaging and accessible look at Guthrie's personal life, the political climate of the 1930's, and the physical landscapes Guthrie loved so much.
In its vision of human folly, and its gritty, sympathetic portraits of men and women desperate for an end to their loneliness, whether in sex or death or by the grace of God, this is a story like nothing in our literature.
The media embraced his sympathetic portrait of life in the Rust Belt as an explanation for the deep divides that drove the election.
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.
Hendricks will explore «Motley's sympathetic portraits, daring visual language, lasting influence on contemporary artists» and, if we're lucky, the Mets» hot playoff streak.
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