The phrase "a better portrait" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when comparing the quality or detail of different representations or descriptions of a person, object, or situation.
Example: "The artist aimed to create a better portrait of the subject, capturing their true essence and personality."
Alternatives: "an improved depiction" or "a more accurate representation."
An increasingly multiracial nation strives to get a better portrait of its people, and, in many ways, it is successful in gathering more information.
"It's a better portrait of Lincoln than any other document or painting," Forbes said after he purchased the manuscript for $231,000, which was then the record for a Lincoln autograph or any presidential document.
A better portrait of the flickering interaction between culture and reality in the belly of the beast is "Adaptation," the most recent film by Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman.
I suppose, to be a better portrait photographer than everybody else, you are trying to draw something out of a person that they don't show everybody.
This information becomes part of a digital profile used by advertisers to get a better portrait of who we are and how we can be convinced to make a purchase.
In order to gain a better portrait of NAC gene expression profiles, we further largely divided the EST data into two groups, with one group contained all wood-forming tissues and the other derived from the other tissues.
Everyone gets Lampedusa's "The Leopard," because there's no better portrait of a society grappling with its own decline.
A really incisive idea about what mattered most -- a theory of historical change, in short -- may allow a historian to write briefly and still achieve a better balanced portrait of the past than either of these books offers.
The statue is considered by historians to be one of the better portrait statues in Washington, D.C. John Aaron Rawlins (1831 1869) was a lawyer and native of Illinois who organized the 45th Illinois Infantry for the Union Army during the Civil War.
Historian James M. Goode, author of Outdoor Sculpture of Washington, D.C., considers it one of the better portrait statues in Washington, D.C., and thinks the statue has a "certain elegance and spirit".
Swisher provides the better portrait of Ted Turner, by far the most interesting and authentic figure in the saga.
