So when someone writes a less than flattering profile of a performer or pans a CD, the artist feels a sense of betrayal.

Huntsman was the subject of several flattering profiles in the mainstream media that portrayed him as a voice of sanity that would deliver his party from rightwing crazies.

That is not to say this is a particularly flattering profile.

Most journalists I know would rather write an expose than a flattering profile, regardless of whether their subject is liberal or conservative.

A man who pursues his own socially dubious interests within a large corporation may easily wind up the subject of flattering profiles and weepy eulogies.

By contrast, "Women of Taste" is lighter and easier to digest, with flattering profiles of 32 chefs, only 12 of them also in Ms. Cooper's book.

In a flattering profile of TerreBlanche, Allan confessed to having been utterly captivated by him.

A flattering profile of Janet Reno describes her as the least political person in Washington.

Those volunteers who were least depressed tended to choose the intern who wrote the flattering profile.

Treasury bonds yield around 6 percent, and Alan Greenspan appears simultaneously on the cover of every news magazine, the subject of flattering profiles.