Don't expect deep psychological portraiture or specific political insights.

"Through the Night," which has been reviewed in the past, remains a well-drawn piece of psychological portraiture.

It was only a few years ago that Atkinson began to wrap her knack for psychological portraiture and dark humor around the crime genre, like police tape around a bomb site.

By contrast, Mr. Ivanek, a first-rate stage actor, turns in a fine-grained piece of psychological portraiture as the quirky Queeg.

Nothing he has done demonstrates this more persuasively than this devastating exercise in psychological portraiture, which is also self-portraiture.

This is psychological portraiture of a valuable - albeit different - character, no?

The performers here are an eager, appealing lot, but they're stronger on narrative clarity than on psychological portraiture.

"Affliction," Russell Banks's sixth novel, is psychological portraiture of a high order, and like all profound portraits it finds in its subject astonishing contradictions.

At once elegant and grotesque, this image raises the intriguing idea that much of Ms. Tyson's previous work might be reconsidered as psychological portraiture.

The characters remain too one-dimensional, often to the point of caricature, to support sporadic attempts at psychological portraiture.