Word: portrayal
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...risked undermining his ticket's claim of having greater experience and putting "country first." By attacking Obama's "lipstick on a pig" comment, the campaign clearly established itself as willing to engage in frivolous, small-ball distractions, a disposition that served McCain poorly when he pivoted and tried to portray himself as a sober statesman willing to halt his campaign to deal with the nation's financial meltdown. Most recently, McCain rolled out an ad calling on a new spirit of bipartisanship and cooperation in the nation's capital only a day after blaming the House of Representatives' defeat...
...majority of the House Republicans don't vote for the measure, McCain could lose political face. "If McCain cannot persuade them, it is hard to portray him as a leader," said Clyde Wilcox, a political science professor at Georgetown University...
...Harry’s food allergy anxieties, and Ozzy’s pronunciation of “memoir” (mem-WAH) are omnipresent. But this does not mean that they are complex. Even McDormand and Swinton, two exceptional actors capable of coaxing humanity out of the crudest roles, portray flat characters. McDormand does all she can with the material at hand, but Linda seems under-developed. Like most of the characters, she often evokes our pity, but never our compassion. Chad, on the other hand, endears with a doltish charm that embraces the gym rat stereotype...
...Powerhouse,” which was originally published in 1941, she delves into the voices of a group of black musicians who are providing music for a whites-only dance, while in “Where Is the Voice Coming From?” she tries to portray the motivations of a racist murderer. And it is in the breadth of the collection that one can really see the driving force of all of Welty’s work: to portray all human lives, no matter how small, in all of their absurdity and poignancy. —Meredith...
...speeches about economic reform in the 1950s that pointed China away from the elusive rhetoric of communism and toward more practical economic policy. Even more interesting is Zakaria’s take on modern events, as he identifies the way countries like China and India have attempted to portray their growth as peaceful rather than threatening. As I finished reading “The Post-American World,” my three-semester falling-out with the Asian region, ignited by my inability to learn the Chinese language, came to an end. This fall, I set out to complete...