Ms. Seretean's success has a special poignancy, considering the difficult reality faced by the people in her unsentimental yet loving portrait.

It is an insiders' portrait, both loving and withering, of the nationalist religious movement in which he was reared.

Its ambitions are more modest: to paint a loving but cleareyed portrait of a distinctive and vanished American way of life.

Not surprisingly, this is a loving portrait of Ike.

Highly sensitive and loving portraits of self-contained contemplative grace.

While Erdal maintains that her book is an affectionate, loving portrait, it can also be seen as an act of betrayal, even revenge.

"Ghosting" was a loving portrait of him, she wrote, if only he could see it that way.

The result is an intimate, deeply loving portrait that extends over many different photographs and more than 15 years.

It could be seen, Mr. Updike says, as a "loving portrait of a terrorist."

In short order, some loving and painful portraits of mother-daughter relationships were sketched out in plain view.