But while some speakers took the rough road, others — starting with old friends and associates of the Obamas and scheduled to culminate with Michelle Obama's anticipated address — offered a warm picture of Mr. Obama and his family.
Here is a sampling of projects that stood the test of time: A homework lesson in seventh grade -- memorizing, in order, all the stores in the heart of the shopping district -- gives me a warm picture of Glen Cove in the late 1930's.
I'm used to a slightly warm picture on my main Dell display, and I had to reduce the blue and green to 52 and 75 respectively to get anything like a warm picture.
The warm pictures can do the rest of the talking.
Zola Jesus Avalanche (Slow) A highly emotive power ballad that is at once melancholy and warm (pictured).
It's one of a spiral-bound series with laminated pages about animal life cycles which gets the point over with a few well-chosen words and bold, warm pictures by Pierre Pratt.
This dire situation bears little resemblance to the global-warming picture, currently in vogue among policy makers, of a slow, steady warming that creeps along imperceptibly year by year.
This heart-warming picture book shows children that everyone has something they're good at.
An important piece of the global-warming picture has come into clearer focus with a confirmation by scientists that the world's oceans have soaked up much of the warming of the last four decades, delaying its full effect on the atmosphere and thus on climate.
Anderegg's team also checked predictions made by computer programs that look at the big picture: climate warming caused by rising carbon dioxide levels.
