Tower to Tower paints a textured picture of the 'hood' in which Neal grew up that was rich with pathos and struggle.

Still, the last week has painted a more textured picture of this organization.

Mr. Kirchner also argued that Mr. Victoria doesn't offer a sufficiently textured picture of the religious landscape of wartime Japan.

But Mr. Ewen's narrative gives a more textured picture of a highly adaptable version, an American version, of self-promotion.

In the primary campaign, Mr. Dole has invoked his war experience as part of an effort to draw a more textured picture of himself.

MLST has provided a more richly textured picture of bacteria within human populations and on strain variants that may be pathogenic to human, plants and animals.

Brusquely textured tonal pictures from the 1950's reflect the macho challenges of Abstract Expressionism.

Together, the documents offered a more textured picture of the bombings, but they provided ambiguous findings about the role, if any, of Al Qaeda, and they did not respond to demands for a public inquiry on the lines of the Sept. 11 investigation in the United States.

Or, with a little patience, you can go with a textured, light-and-dark picture that is often closer to the way things are.

The self-taught Salvatore (1938-1994) used oil sticks to make boldly patterned, juicily colored, brusquely textured pictures that hover between abstraction and visionary, biblical narration.