In the end I wrote a portrait, not a clean sanitised equation on a page.
In 1983, Estes' daughter Pam wrote a portrait of her father, Billie Sol: King of Texas Wheeler-Dealers.
In 1947 Fleming wrote a portrait of his adopted home in Horizon magazine, influential enough to fuel a postwar tourist boomlet among well-heeled Britons and Americans.
She's written a portrait of Powell that is as revealing as it can be and remain flattering, and as flattering as it can be and remain revealing.
Mr. Pierre-Pierre and his colleagues at The Times have written a portrait of one street in Port-au-Prince and its survivors, for example, and another article about the challenges faced by a team of doctors, including some Haitian-Americans, from New York.
Back in the sixth century AD, the Roman historian Procopius wrote a portrait of the empress Theodora that chronicled, in scabrous detail, her early life as an actress and whore: a career which had featured floor-shows so imaginative that classicists have generally preferred to follow the example of Gibbon, and leave the precise details "veiled in the obscurity of a learned language".
I learned that lesson when I wrote a portrait of my best friend from college days, a man I loved and admired although we were about as similar as Oscar and Felix.
(N. B.: During 1933, the year Tanizaki wrote A Portrait of Shunkin, he also published In Praise of Shadows, an essay on esthetics that stressed the powers of darkness in literature).
"I finally felt I could write a true portrait of her, with all her contradictions, her strengths and her weaknesses.
He points out that he did not get invited to the White House and asked to write a noble portrait of a president at war.
