Mr. Mutuski's profile painted an "intriguing portrait," she added.

"When Mother Comes Home for Christmas" presents an intriguing portrait of Sri Lankan society, but it is one of the cruder films in the New Directors series.

While much is lost, however, there remains in "The Two Mrs. Grenvilles" an intriguing portrait of the rich and powerful closing ranks to protect themselves from outsiders.

The most intriguing portrait in "Organize Your Business Travel!"

Still, his book remains a highly intriguing portrait of an impossible man whose very nature helped him to achieve the impossible.

Both Gone Baby Gone and The Town created far darker, brooding and more intriguing portraits of inner-city Boston than Martin Scorsese's overly glamorised The Departed.

Although Howard and Judith Sacks offer an intriguing and textured portrait of the life of a black family in the 19th-century North, they have a more ambitious agenda.

However we may pigeonhole her new work, she has accomplished a good deal, providing us with the intriguing portrait of one man, Nicholas Bloch, an understandable, even sympathetic monster.

And the English tenor Ian Bostridge transforms the small role of Sellem, the auctioneer, into an intriguing portrait of a seductively slippery operator.

A novel, "The Diamond Age," by Neal Stephenson (Spectra/Bantam Books), fleshes out an even more intriguing portrait of the future.