Sentences with phrase «sympathetic portrait of»

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 media embraced his sympathetic portrait of life in the Rust Belt as an explanation for the deep divides that drove the election.

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.

Something worth considering is how folks will take what may end up as a partially sympathetic portrait of reviled political figures.

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.

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.

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.

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.»

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.

For those who weren't, popcorn boxes will be crushed with anger and frustration at a sympathetic portrait of a divisive PM.

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.

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 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.

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.

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Marsh, a professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia, gives us a sympathetic and theologically informed portrait that emphasizes Bonhoeffer's close and enduring ties to Christian orthodoxy, but also his restless curiosity and experimentalism.

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.

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.

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.»

Director Rob Reiner and star Woody Harrelson surprise us with this surprisingly sympathetic — and funny — portrait of America's 36th president, a man of mighty contradictions.

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.

Stevens's portraits of home - schooling families are sympathetic and vivid.

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.

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.

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.

Elisabeth Vigée - Lebrun's immense following at the French court was largely due to the patronage of Marie - Antoinette, whom she has been credited with making sympathetic to posterity through her portraits of the queen.

This, among other leaps of sympathetic intelligence, makes Neel's portraits resemble collaborations — they render difference recognizable and uniqueness special.»

This emphasis on native «race pride» gained Ufer a contemporary reputation for work that was considered the most sympathetic collective portrait of Native Americans to date.

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.