Such passages, combined with a decidedly simplistic rendering of politics in the Middle East, bog down Mr. Bromell's narrative and distract attention from his ability to create characters who engage our sympathy and our imagination.
The convergence between the new war on terror and the longstanding Middle East conflict has rendered the politics of Mr. Bush's primary foreign policy proposals more divisive, as Arab and Jewish constituencies in the United States bring pressure on the White House to intervene on their behalf.
This includes a number of the president's Democratic allies in the Senate, rendering the politics of the decision more complicated than it might seem.
Michael Kalin has expressed concerns that Jon Stewart's comedy comes at the expense of idealism and encourages American college students to adopt a self-righteous attitude toward politics, rendering them complacent and apathetic, and deterring intelligent young people from considering political careers.
Unfortunately, Whitney's rendering of the politics of the current gun-control debate is less useful.
Did they fail to secure his release because cold-war politics rendered him inconvenient?
According to Bruce Merrill, a professor at Arizona State University, the national news media now dominate politics, rendering a local advantage virtually irrelevant.
Sofia Golovkina, former head of the Bolshoi school, gets into incompletely rendered Soviet ballet politics with respect to Mr. Malakhov.
Though its details are fictional, this chronicle is impressively nuanced in its rendering of Lebanese politics and society in the 1970s and '80s.
BHI has since faced an avalanche of press exposing its errors and dishonest politics, rendering its services useless to Mr. Koch, who cannot wage campaigns as effectively when the public is paying attention.
