Sentence examples for a dark portrait from inspiring English sources

Although it is not overtly political, the film does present a dark portrait of China.

The company has assembled a terrific cast for "Port Authority," a trio of monologues drawing a dark portrait of three generations of Irishmen in contemporary Dublin.

An Iranian blogger who writes as Pedestrian noted that the Web site Raja News, which is close to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, suggested that the Oscar was awarded because the film offered a dark portrait of life in Iran.

In an earlier book of stories, "The Secret Goldfish," David Means managed a dark portrait of today's working-class youth, aimless and bereft of the stability that "working-class" once conferred.

The S.E.C. painted a dark portrait of a concerted effort by CUC senior managers -- including the former chief financial officer, who said he was acting at the direction of his superiors -- to falsify earnings.

Most notable for the weekend was a film that opened in only 18 theaters: Darren Aronofsky's "Black Swan," a dark portrait of a ballet dancer (Natalie Portman), grossed $1.4 million for a per-theater average of $77,459 — one of the best art-house results for the year and a record for the studio behind the film, Fox Searchlight.

— now begins to paint a darker portrait of an emerging psychopath with serious developmental issues.

But for the 38.6 million Americans who kept their televisions on after the game to watch the new reality show "Undercover Boss," a different narrative was on offer, with a darker portrait of the extant American Dream.

I'm tackling big iconic figures - Freud - reading Peter Gay's magisterial biography Freud: A Life for Our Time (WW Norton) and also Katherine Duncan Jones's Ungentle Shakespeare Arden Shakespearee), a succinct but subtly revolutionary life of the bard - a darker portrait, but all the more human for all that.

Now that Joe's at school, he says, 'it's easier to work again', and although Revolutionary Road, in its subject matter, is a relentlessly dark portrait of a marriage, it was also, in its making, a family affair.

The script, full of rapid, clever switchbacks, implacably follows the downward spiral of the principal characters, while on the way Siodmak's direction paints a dark, dingy portrait of the other America -- of bungalows, bus stations and bars -- that has barely been allowed to appear in Hollywood movies since.