It was a flattering portrait of a fit chief executive, ready to take up the nation's business once again.

Rembrandt lost customers when they found out he didn't paint flattering portraits.

It is considered by everybody a first-rate but flattering portrait.

In other words, be warned: this won't be a flattering portrait.

It is not, however, a romantic, let alone a flattering portrait.

For him to say that he painted flattering portraits of Brown and Blair is just a straight out lie.

"But anybody who reads it closely will see that the evidence, when drawn together, makes for anything but a flattering portrait."

Neither of these plays is exactly what you would call a flattering portrait.

But another, less flattering portrait has also emerged.

Simply doing a flattering portrait of Paul Robeson is to make a political statement.