Word: portrayal
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Thank you for the interesting article about the Mormons' returning to Nauvoo to build their temple. You helped portray the unique challenges a small town faces in dealing with its anticipated explosive growth. The local business owners should be grinning all the way to the bank rather than being upset by the influx of Mormon tourists. KEVIN F. SMITH Mesa, Ariz...
Laura plays fast and loose with pseudoclinical rhetoric and nonempirical statistics (mostly from political rather than credible medical sources) to portray lesbians and gays as, well, "biological errors." The fact that she is not medically qualified to make such claims is dodged by her "deeply felt religious perspectives." She not only seems unable to choose whether to espouse science or faith but also mixes an indefensible concoction of both and passes it off as truth...
...Laura plays fast and loose with pseudoclinical rhetoric and nonempirical statistics (mostly from political rather than credible medical sources) to portray lesbians and gays as, well, "biological errors." The fact that she is not medically qualified to make such claims is dodged by her "deeply felt religious perspectives." She not only seems unable to choose whether to espouse science or faith but also mixes an indefensible concoction of both and passes it off as truth...
...other novels, The Coming of the Rain , Bound for the Promised Land and After the War, portray individuals interacting with major historical events between 1850 and 1950. They are all set in Marius' native Tennessee...
...Grogan says City Council meetings portray the University in an almost entirely negative light...