Word: portraited
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...attacking a civilian building, the bombing seemed to have fueled just as much bitterness at U.S. forces for failing to prevent the attack and coming too late to rescue the victims. Minutes after the blast, looters ransacked the embassy, tore up the Jordanian flag and stomped on a portrait of Jordanian King Abdullah's father. By the time soldiers from the 1st Armored Division arrived, some 30 minutes later, the crowd had turned hostile. "Screw you, Americans!" screamed a young Iraqi in a white T shirt. "Screw...
Libby contested the prosecution’s portrait of his client, describing Byrne as a calm and hard-working veteran cop. He also said that Byrne had faced rowdy opposition from students coming off of two alcohol-soaked nights...
...their posture and their positions--Senator Kerry, he of the long, elegant suits and well-modulated speech, comes to mind--Dean cannot be anything but the exuberant, stocky ex--high school wrestling captain, a guy whose neck--what there is of it--strains over his collar. But the portrait of Dean as scrappy outsider is incomplete. Rather, he combines the sense of entitlement afforded by a childhood of extreme wealth with the moral certitude gained by his decision not to merely live off--or, for that matter, maximize--that wealth. Instead, Dean got a medical degree, which gave him confidence...
...cast) seem to be reveling in the worst of the U.S. In the current hit revival of David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Matthew Perry and Hank Azaria leave all their charm at passport control as they add an extra layer of bile to Mamet's caustic portrait of the battle of the sexes in the Midwestern heartland...
...director's several films dealing with homosexuality. His visual style often strained unduly to make editorial points, but he knew the fears that eat at smart people. This made him the right man to direct the angst-ridden thriller Marathon Man and Alan Bennett's An Englishman Abroad--another portrait in Schlesinger's gallery of men clever enough to know they have made a mess of their lives...