1.   A vivid portrait of a successful charlatan exploiting the second-century Christians is given by Lucian in his Peregrinus.

2.   And the race is providing a vivid portrait of a well-oiled machine playing by rules that look like a throwback to an earlier political era.

3.   As the investigation unfolds, Perry paints a vivid portrait of the difference in the English and Irish classes.

4.   At its center is a vivid portrait of Robert Weinberg, in whose lab she spent a year.

5.   A vivid portrait of the acerbic entertainer.

6.   But federal prosecutors have painted a vivid private portrait of Symington to supplement the sketchy public picture most people know.

7.   Danson portrays Gulliver with a stirring intensity, painting a vivid portrait of a man who has been to hell and is thus teetering on the edge of madness.

8.   Dr. Steve Murdock, the state demographer, said the census data revealed a vivid portrait of how Texas was being transformed.

9.   Faludi paints vivid portraits of individual men, but some of her broader conclusions about the male dilemma are unsupported.

10.   He tells us exactly what he thinks of people, painting a vivid portrait in the process.