Mr. Shrum has clear favorites (most notably Senator Edward M. Kennedy), and goes to great lengths to present them flatteringly.
Byatt has, after all, gone to great lengths to present us with exactly the same evidence her characters have.
The city has gone to great lengths to present the taking of the parkland and the replacement scheme to build the new stadium as if there would be a net increase in parkland for the community, instead of a loss.
Despite going to great lengths to present new developments as instantly part of an established cityscape, marketing materials often stress an ease of movement that contradicts any such deep-rootedness in urban life.
Instead, it goes to great lengths to present common aspects of Western life as readily available there, such as popular chocolate, tea, coffee and even "fruity cocktails".
Mr. Gore has gone to great lengths to present this tour as a mom-and-pop operation, an exhaustive tour that has one purpose -- "to sell books!" he said -- that just happened to coincide with the period when he is deciding about running for president.
Mr. Giuliani's campaign went to some lengths to present his speech as historic in that it echoed a speech given in the same city in 1960 that proved to be a milestone in American political history: At that time, John F. Kennedy appeared before an audience of Baptists to address concerns about electing a Roman Catholic president.
For some Republicans, Ann Romney delivered the best speech of the party's gathering in 2012 because she went to great lengths to present a loving portrait of Mitt Romney that was more fully rounded than his reputation as a wealthy businessman.
While Republican elites have gone to great lengths to present Trump as somehow outside the political mainstream, his views fit squarely within the frame of modern conservatism – xenophobic nationalism, contempt for traditional politics, fetishisation of "authenticity" and dismissal and contempt of "others" in American society.
It was almost a shame — given that the performers, billed as the Artek Orchestra, went to unusual lengths to present "Mozartean Masterpieces" in a manner inspired by accounts from Mozart's day, you almost wanted the audience to respond in kind.
