Likewise in "Maia in Yonkers", the estrangement from the son is touchingly, if fleetingly, lifted by an unexpected intervention from the lady Maia cares for - itself the fruit of the author's sharp portrayal of Maia's elderly charge.
Jobs claimed not to have read "A Regular Guy," Simpson's 1996 novel about a Jobs-like entrepreneur with a thing for vegetarian food and detached parenting (first sentence: "He was a man too busy to flush toilets"), and the sharp portrayal hardly dented their relationship.
His movie career has focused on gritty-but-stylish crime dramas, and the director has become noted for his pin-sharp portrayals of urban America.
His direct, terse style, seemingly drab by earlier standards, was the perfect vehicle for his sharp, unsentimental portrayal of people living economically and emotionally depressed lives.
She won the best country album Grammy for a record that was full of empathetic but sharp-tongued portrayals of poverty and small-town life in middle America.
Simmons, an accomplished writer of horror and sci-fi, is predictably adroit in his deployment of terror, but the greatest pleasure of the novel lies in the sharp and sympathetic portrayals of Captain Francis Crozier, who assumes command of the expedition after Franklin's death, and Dr. Harry Goodsir, the mild yet determined ship's physician.
Martin Lynch brought class politics into sharp focus in his portrayal of the working conditions of unskilled labourers in Belfast's docks in the early 1960s.
However, with its sharp wit and insightful portrayal of the human condition, the novel has since inspired many later authors and artists to mimic and adapt it.
The film and Witherspoon's portrayal of Sharp received positive reviews, as The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "Nair's cast is splendid.
This pregnancy was not a hindrance to her work as Witherspoon believed the gestation had in fact helped her portrayal of Sharp's character: "I love the luminosity that pregnancy brings, I love the fleshiness, I love the ample bosom it gave me much more to play with", she said.
Manifold challenges for future research were identified, placing the scenarios in sharp contrast with early portrayals of climate engineering research as threatening a 'slippery slope' of possible entrenchments, lock-ins and path dependencies that would inexorably lead to deployment.
