1.   After years of near silence, he now seems motivated to straighten a few things out about his sometimes unflattering public image.

2.   New Yorkers, however, have been more aggressive in defending their miserable, overcrowded existence than Washingtonians have in countering our unflattering image.

3.   This year, the candidates for president are trying to prevent unflattering images from taking hold and they hope to undo some ideas that already exist.

4.   Thus the unflattering images of poor Tulla and the martyred artist, all featuring her naked and in a room decorated in the fashion of a brothel.

5.   What does get old is the unflattering image to which his sport is tied.

6.   In its new role, a more modern Bonn also hopes to shake an unflattering Cold War image famously summed up by spy novelist John LeCarre.