Recent scholarship has created a much more complicated portrait of this people.

But while all of that suggests a debilitating diminution in the pope's energy, it is only part of a more complicated, contradictory portrait.

Indeed, the interviews and an examination of National Guard records create a complicated and sometimes contradictory portrait of Mr. Bush at that time in his life.

But a complicated portrait of Mr. Rocancourt has emerged from interviews with those who thought they knew him best.

Looking at nations individually makes for a much more complicated portrait.

The book as a whole created a complicated portrait of the period that was viewed as skeptical of contemporary values and evocative of ubiquitous loneliness.

But her "Verdi" provides us with a more complicated portrait of the man than we have had so far.

What emerges in a series of jigsaw puzzle episodes is a complicated, funny and heartbreaking portrait of a neighborhood populated by angry, pained people.

Interviews with people in the United States and Israel in recent days, though, have helped fill in some of the complicated portrait of Mr. Cipel.

Yes, the Giants made some mistakes, but a more complicated portrait of the situation emerges after discussions with several agents and personnel men around the league who asked not to be identified.