The phrase "a portrait of evil" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a depiction or representation of malevolence, often in a literary or artistic context.
Example: "The novel paints a vivid portrait of evil through its complex antagonist, whose actions reveal the darkest aspects of human nature."
Alternatives: "a depiction of malevolence" or "a representation of wickedness".
Compared to Martin Scorsese's excessively graphic re-make, J. Lee Thompson's original is a subtler, vastly more chilling exercise, with Mitchum's Cady a searing portrait of evil and barely contained violence.
Lucic is superb as Iago, a chilling and malevolent portrait of evil personified, cold and calculating, like a cat playing with a mouse before devouring it.
For the past few years, the Greek media has been revelling in self-pity, painting a portrait of Angela Merkel as an evil old maid looking to suck the life out of the hard-working, hard-done-by Greek people.
"The History" weaves together every dark rumor about Richard's brief life (he died at thirty-two) into a brilliant narrative, which paints a portrait of a bold, gifted, and ineradicably evil man whose evil was marked in his very body: "Little of stature, ill fetured of limmes, croke backed, his left shoulder much higher then his right, hard fauoured of visage".
For the past few years, the Greek media has been reveling in self-pity, painting a portrait of German Chancellor Angela Merkel as an evil old maid looking to suck the life out of the hard-working, hard-done-by Greek people.
On the contrary, the producers were so anxious not to blur their portrait of evil that they left out the banality of Hitler.
Margarethe von Trotta, Germany (World Premiere) Hannah Arendt is a portrait of the genius that shook the world with her discovery of "the banality of evil".
One is a portrait of an imaginary, beady-eyed man, who, you get the feeling, might have an evil disposition.
Ms Coyle, a visiting professor at the University of Manchester, begins her book with a portrait of Newcastle-born Angus Maddison, who can still recall his uncle's soapbox protests against the evils of the Depression.
