Sentence examples for benign portrait from inspiring English sources

Mr. Gardner's benign portrait of a nonconformist straightened out by love was created on Broadway in 1962 by Jason Robards, who later starred in the film version.

Accompanying this picture of slave loyalty, confusion and docility was a much less benign portrait of the black as a man-child easily corrupted by "Yankee abolitionists" and turned loose on the "fair, unprotected females" of the South.

But longtime critics of his transcripts say Mr. Kutler deliberately edited the tapes in ways that painted a more benign portrait of a central figure in the drama, the conspirator-turned-star-witness, John W. Dean III, the White House counsel who told Nixon that Watergate had become a "cancer" on his presidency.

The article repeated accusations by a handful of critics that Stanley I. Kutler, an esteemed historian, deliberately omitted and distorted material to paint a benign portrait of Dean, the presidential counsel who turned on Nixon and helped to bring him down.

Fighters for truth, justice and American eccentricity are celebrated in Michael Barnett's "Superheroes," a benign documentary portrait of costumed crusaders across the country, chasing evildoers.

But Roosevelt didn't limit himself to the benign self-portrait of a unifying President.

Some are political, and some more benign, including portraits of his parents and splashily-colored pop art-style pieces relating to his love of music.

The combination of cultures is not always benign, and the portrait of the second and third generations has some bite and regret, turning the film, at the end, from an expected sentimentality into tragedy.

Hoitsu seems not to have gone the demonic way of "Waves" again, turning instead to more benign subjects: courtly tales, portraits of mythical poets, and the creatures and seasons of the world.

Both Hall and Dern give expert portraits of benign wariness, instantly conscious that the roughness in Nick has scratched the gem beyond repair; look at Delilah's face, over his shoulder, when, by way of farewell, he hugs her slightly too long.

Yet for all of his long life he was a workmanlike practitioner, performing what commissions were available — portraits, religious subjects, benign and colorful panoramas to be turned into tapestries.