Word: portrayal
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...words were powerful, but not as riveting as the three Polaroid photos that Edwards later took at the West Los Angeles station house. In them, Nicole looks stunned, terrified and brutally bruised. ``Do the pictures fully portray her injuries?'' Edwards was asked. ``Not even close,'' he replied curtly...
...image I like to portray is that there isn't much difference. Sure, there are little things here and there, but I'm just like everyone else in a lot of ways," he says...
...makers try to portray Republicans as incapable of compassion. Yet how compassionate is it to create a class of people who are dependent on government aid? What happens to self-respect and pride in oneself when circumstances dictated by the government virtually force you to live in a position only slightly above that of a beggar? This is not compassion; this is lunacy. We Republicans want to create an environment in which welfare is a way out of the cycle of poverty, not a one-way ticket to a life of dependency...
...illegitimate class warfare for the Democrats to try to portray the Republican Party as the handmaiden of the financial elite, but not class warfare for the Republicans to tar the Democrats as creatures of a cultural elite? If the Republicans feel free to exploit resentment of the poor, why shouldn't the Democrats feel free to exploit resentment of the rich...
...story begins as Augusta Iris decides to take to her bed indefinitely. Her husband has left her for another woman, and she is exhausted not only from the pain of his abandonment but also from a lifetime of unfulfilled desire. It is a challenge to portray a forsaken woman in a way that evokes genuine sympathy; but Stevens manages, conveying Augusta's sadness with a knowing honesty reminiscent of Edna O'Brien. Augusta cannot bear thoughts of her husband's existing in the world without her. "It was the fact that he wasn't dead that worked me like...