Sentence examples for Social portrait from inspiring English sources

But it has her trademark sensibility: pop and playful on the surface, complex social portrait beneath.

A Web searcher could draw a social portrait of the neighborhood.

Here is Richard Hamilton, through his friends' eyes: a social portrait of the artist who foresaw the social age.

(As a panoramic social portrait of an American yesteryear "Queen" often brings to mind John Doyle's productions of Mr. Sondheim's "Road Show").

Though Ozon says Rendell offers a social portrait as well as a murder story, in his version the murder is excised.

The work, with a libretto by Donna Di Novelli, is a sweeping social portrait of southern Italy, with four unnamed characters representing some of the forces that have swept through the region over the centuries.

"He had the finesse of Honoré de Balzac in his social portraits.

The Elegance room – it sounds like a department of Harrods – sets the grand social portraits of Rubens alongside artists they "influenced".

Her sexy, roiling presence onstage is one side of her, her wry social portraits on "Portlandia" represent another side, and neither has much in common with her modest, cerebral, nonperforming self.

As novelists developed greater naturalism in both content and style, dramatists too looked to new and more realistic departures: the dialectical comedies of ideas of George Bernard Shaw; the problem plays associated with Henrik Ibsen; the more lyrical social portraits of Anton Chekhov; the fiercely personal, social, and spiritual visions of August Strindberg.

But many Iranian critics trace the roots of the resurgence to the director Dariush Mehrjui, who began making films before the Islamic revolution of 1979 and has continued to create piercing social portraits of his country (including 1998's devastating "Leila").