To support his claims for the potency of anticolonialist ideology, D'Souza has to make the ideology seem appealing, and the result is a film that, in its first half, provides a surprisingly sympathetic portrait of various peoples who view themselves as victims of colonial oppression.
Taking the shape of a narrative concept album which Perry detailed as a portrait of "various relationships in decay", Susquehanna featured prominent strains of Latin and Caribbean-influenced music, incorporating flourishes of flamenco, Latin rock and reggae into the band's traditional fare of swing and ska.
In the special-interest group 'Systems Biology and the Cell: Are There Simple Rules Governing Complexity?', Therese Sorlie described her work on the subclassification of breast tumors by identifying a 'molecular portrait' of various tumor types and the correlation of these expression patterns with clinical parameters such as survival and the likelihood of metastasis.
Her portfolio, "Street Types of New York," published in 1896, was the product of several years spent making formal, almost archetypal, portraits of various people at work.
There's a relaxed, neighborhood feel at this former artist's loft, now outfitted with custom ironwork and portraits of various monks, from Thelonius to the Dalai Lama.
Juxtaposed with the taxidermic displays are portraits of various West Village neighbors who are friendly with the management — among them Diane von Furstenberg, Ian Schrager, and Wagenknecht's ex-husband, the restaurateur Keith McNally.
After 17 years in the country, he speaks hardly a word of Tajik and runs the school from an office adorned with portraits of various royals, and bunting depicting a smiling Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
Chekhov's heirs in the area of short fiction were Maksim Gorky (later the dean of Soviet letters), who began his career by writing sympathetic portraits of various social outcasts, and the aristocrat Ivan Bunin, who emigrated after the Russian Revolution of 1917 and received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1933.
"Train of Fools" is a darker variation on the same topic, with a foreboding, grinding guitar part and compressed portraits of various human frailties, from vanity to cruelty to greed ("One will be a rich man, at least that's what he'll say / Waste his life chasing after gold").
Taylor is less sure-footed, however, when it comes to the present: though he attempts a taxonomy of contemporary snobbery via fictionalised portraits of various snob "types" (the "progressive snob", the "City snob", and so on), he doesn't really get to grips with how snobbism has evolved (or, perhaps, broken down?) in recent decades.
There's nothing here not to like, as long as you like Schubert, Brahms, Mahler and Ravel (whose "Histoires naturelles," with their amusing portraits of various animals, are always a good final set); and Julius Drake is a worthy partner as his accompanist.
