Words similar to paints

Example sentences for: paints

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With just a few quick strokes, writer-director M. N. Shyamalan paints a totally authentic-feeling picture of yuppiedom--its decent intentions, complacency, and loneliness--and I didn't see a less whitewashed or sensational portrait of working-class family life this year.
One paints him as a reluctant but incredibly effective fund raiser, whose outsider image, basketball superstardom, and Senate Finance Committee background have activated a network of super-rich, generally apolitcal supporters, including Warren Buffett and Rupert Murdoch.
One is left with the somewhat misleading impression of an establishment figure: the artist who plays an artist in Six Degrees of Separation (as Close did), who paints pictures of his celebrity friends, who takes a formal photographic portrait of Bill Clinton (1996, in the catalog).
The WP paints essentially the same picture.
Gwendolyn Freed's outraged review in the Wall Street Journal attempts to refute many of the film's claims and says it "paints a repulsive portrait of du Pré."