In reacting against President Bush, liberals have portrayed every success as failure by comparing it with an ideal rosy scenario.
Although I portrayed outward success, I was in the midst of a turbulent few weeks.
Why do the media insist on portraying the success of Howard Dean's campaign as based on anything other than his overwhelming appeal to voters?
Without putting too much of a smiley face on things, the movie portrays the success of "Afghan Star," whose 2008 season finale drew 11 million viewers (roughly a third of Afghanistan's population), as evidence of democracy in action.
Drawing from her own experiences, Alvarez portrays the success of a writer who uses her family as the inspiration for her work.
In fact, he portrayed his relative success against an incumbent vice president as a measure of how strongly Americans believed in the legislative agenda he outlined.
For years, the onetime leader of a steelworkers' union had been portrayed as a success story from the industrial working class, an automobile factory worker who was elected president on his fourth try.
The launching itself of the three-stage rocket on Sunday, which the North Korean government portrayed as a success — even bragging that the supposed satellite payload was now broadcasting patriotic tunes from space — outraged Japan and South Korea, led to widespread rebuke by President Obama and other leaders, and prompted the United Nations Security Council to go into an emergency session.
But other American officials said there was new confidence that the conference could be portrayed as a success, or at least not a failure, in part because the figure for what Iraq could actually spend had been lowered to a more realistic level that reflects the time it takes to solicit bids, award contracts and get the work under way.
His ferocious counter punches and the dynamic personality he portrayed, yielded unprecedented success and dividends they paid.
