Sentences with phrase «sympathetic portrait in»

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.

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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.

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).

Lukas Dhont's Camera d'Or - winning debut feature is, according to CineVue's Joseph Walsh, a «sympathetic and emotionally rich portrait» of Laura, a 15 - year - old girl, born in the body of a boy, who dreams of becoming a ballerina.

The first internationally released German production to feature Hitler as a central figure, Oliver Hirschbiegel's film has been criticized in some circles as presenting a portrait of the Fuhrer that is «too sympathetic.»

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.

The film offers an extremely rare portrait of the movie industry in which the talent as well as the management are, if not sympathetic, then at least principled.

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.

Lusi's portrait of SDEs» contentious tenure as facilitators of teaching and learning processes, the crowded political stage, and the complex decisions to be made before setting coherent vision leads readers to feel sympathetic towards the department charged with ensuring every child in its state receives high quality education.

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And as a bonus, after you finish Levine's sympathetic and Freudian portrait, you can read the original novella reprinted in the back of this book.

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.

The Irish figure and portrait painter William Conor, noted for his sympathetic genre - paintings of working - class life in Ulster, was born in Belfast, the son of a wrought - iron worker.