humanize

That this caper results in a staggering amount of collateral damage — I mean, he shoots a lot of innocent people — makes him immediately unlikable, which I don’t think is the point; if anything, there’s some attempt to humanize him, give him some depth.

Set in the 1970s and 1980s and depicting Trump’s effort to “Bring New York back” through real estate, the film could be read as a biopic that tries to humanize Trump in his initial efforts to succeed against oppressive forces.

Sharon Palmer laughs as she tells this story, which seems, at first, like your standard cute anecdote, tossed off to humanize a famous daughter — an example of how stubborn kids can be in the pursuit of their desires, proof that years before she became a child star, Keke knew how to get what she wanted.

Rivulets of paint dribbling from the edges of a trumpeting, undulating, otherwise indescribable robotic form are said to represent the tears of grief-stricken King Lear, wildly attempting to humanize the cold if nearly inexplicable scientific reality of Man Ray’s source.

Instead, the writing chooses to humanize her as the young person she is — the young person she really hasn't been able to be through her grief.