On one wall hang beaming portraits side by side of President Barack Obama, Queen Elizabeth II, and President Hamid Karzai.
At that, Yousafzai, a natural politician, smiled, paused, and adjusted her headscarf, giving the audience a chance to applaud and turn, with the camera, to the table where Hillary Clinton was beaming, a portrait of grateful yet contented acknowledgement.
For the cover of the March issue of Vogue, she immortalized a beaming Michelle Obama, while her portrait of Barack Obama is on the front of the March issue of Vanity Fair.
Scenes in the film show the face of Boris Yelsin beaming out from official portraits as horrific acts are committed at his government's behest.
That beaming countenance radiates from portraits on the walls, including one by the singer Tony Bennett, and that gravelly voice can be heard in homemade recordings played over a new speaker system.
A decade after he died in a helicopter crash, the soldier-turned politician who helped propel South Sudan towards independence is sorely missed and deeply revered, his face beaming down from the portraits that hang on walls across the country and staring up from its banknotes.
Not when it was an overflowing taster plate of Moroccan-style falafel, stuffed peppers, hummus, aubergine caviar, tzatziki, tarama and a surprising combination of artichoke heart with orange peel, all served by the actual Marianne, identifiable from her portrait, busty and beaming, on the menu.
He could have had Hogarth as royal painter – there's an early oil sketch of the family – but was more interested in patronising the ubiquitous designer William Kent; although the Georges still ended up with Hogarth's terrifically lively portrait of David Garrick beaming at his desk while his wife tries to whisk the pen from his hand.
Gap-toothed faces with awkward squinty grins, school portraits of broadly beaming adolescents.
The most opulent of these are in the guise of Babylonian gateways or Islamic arches decorated with portraits of a beaming Saddam, a man for all millennia.
