Mailer's recounting, though quite different in terms of his self-portrait, takes on a comparable rhetorical approach to evoking what he saw as historical underpinnings.

Moreover, Nowrasteh maintains that a certain amount of dramatic license must be allotted in the process writing a dramatic script with a historical underpinning (see docudrama and biopic).

Some Taiwanese believe that tugging on the string of history might unravel the entire historical underpinning of the Government, as happened in the Soviet Union.

His preference for metal that revealed its character as it aged echoed Brazil's inability to mask its historical underpinnings.

At least some of the show's historical underpinnings lie in Art Brut, early Modernism's not-nice, dystopian wild style.

Mr. Sharansky is careful to say that Mr. Bush came to his own conclusions and found in the book a kindred spirit and historical underpinnings.

"Apollo 13," Mr. Gelfond said, has both the historical and scientific underpinning to make it suitable for both Imax's commercial cinemas and those in museums.

Mr. Gorbachev's task, on this most patriotic of Soviet occasions, was to provide historical underpinnings for his program without sending tremors through a wary populace.

Pausanias digresses from description of architectural and artistic objects to review the mythological and historical underpinnings of the society that produced them.

It is all handled in a way that reveals a deep familiarity with and affection for the area and its historical underpinnings.