Sentence examples for a portrait of failure from inspiring English sources
Characteristically, Pound lit into her, pointing out that Prufrock is the "quintessence of futility" and that his is "a portrait of failure, or of a character which fails, and it would be false art to make it end on a note of triumph" and have him become "a reformed character breathing out fire and ozone".
Although occasionally unsophisticated and repetitive, Barracuda ultimately succeeds in painting a deeply involving portrait of failure: of the pain that can result when a mind mired in shame turns against itself.
This is a portrait of an unstable mind, an expansive, expertly wrought imagining of memory's failures and potential.
When Cézanne was painting a portrait of the critic Gustave Geffroy, he made him endure eighty sittings, over three months, before announcing the project a failure.
It is a portrait of a person.
Above: A portrait of Lei Feng.
It's a portrait of a court.
(C) a portrait of a corrupt system?
This isn't a portrait of grief.
It wasn't a portrait of despair.
Capital: A Portrait of Twenty-First Century Delhi.
