Hooper shows us their failings, but with gentleness and respect, creating a moving and compassionate portrait of Ford, Kettlewell and the others in this decades-long drama.

The result is a "moving and compassionate portrait" of scientists undone by myopia and cold ambition, Paul Raeburn wrote here in 2002.

William Sanderson was cast as J. F. Sebastian, a quiet and lonely genius who provides a compassionate yet compliant portrait of humanity.

Perhaps the most surprising aspect of this compassionate portrait is its sobriety, its steadfast conventionality.

The compassionate portrait drawn by the Turkish film makes Mahsun almost likable in a sad-sack way.

There are unembellished, compassionate portraits, views of signs painted on the sides of buildings and long shots of factories and streets lined with telephone poles.

"Exit" recalls Allan King's "Dying at Grace" (2003), an equally steely and compassionate portrait of terminal illness.

The Whitbread judges called it "a superb biography by a writer at the height of her powers" and a "humane and compassionate portrait."

He painted a much warmer and more compassionate portrait of both of us than if another person had directed the movie.

He is best known for his psychologically penetrating, witty and deeply compassionate portraits of individuals and large groups, and soulful landscapes executed with a painterly technique.