Is there a more complete, persuasive and ultimately enigmatic portrait of patriarchal authority than Vito Corleone?

Although Lifton never met Asahara, he draws a persuasive portrait of him, working from solid research in press reports and trial statements.

What Jefferson did was create a deeply persuasive historical and ethical portrait of a great teacher.

Napoleon's paradoxes, his extraordinary energy, his mercurial temperament all form part of a rounded and persuasive portrait.

A persuasive portrait of the most aristocratic rebel in the 1798 rising, a handsome, high-spirited man who had every material reason to like the status quo.

These stories do not come together to create a persuasive portrait of Barntrosna; nor do they stand on their own as compelling fictions.

Ms. Lindley gives an equally persuasive portrait of a nun with a sense of morality as well as faith.

It is a book that offers neither a persuasive portrait of McCullers's imaginative life nor a useful assessment of her memorable but narrow body of work.

He "offers a persuasive portrait not only of a tough problem but of the larger society surrounding it," Joyce Purnick said here in 1997.

It's a persuasive portrait, but one that shouldn't be pushed too far.