Sentence examples for a portrait of something from inspiring English sources

It felt beautiful to try to make a portrait of something so common.

Halvard Solness, the title character of Henrik Ibsen's 1892 play "The Master Builder," is a portrait of something, but of what?

All of which would be significant enough, but this is a portrait of something else too: not just Bach, but his music.

Its first sentence is enviably disgusting: "My fondest teenage snogs tasted of fried fish and chips". His account of Chip Alley in Cardiff in the early hours is a portrait of something hellish but not quite hell: his evidently comradely nature impels him to excuse the legless bedlam and play down what must be the potent reek (oil, vinegar, vomit).

The item could be a Civil War flag, a dining room table or a portrait of an ancestor, something passed down through generations or bought at a yard sale.

There are some surprises along the way; Meacham points out that Andrew Jackson, a demagogue when he chose to be, resisted the revivalism of his time in favor of separating faith from politics, and he presents a portrait of Franklin Roosevelt as something of a public theologian.

It's a late, scruffy, unrecognizable portrait of something or other.

"Once we get these young guys to come in and they see a portrait of their life on stage, something hits home.

Instead, it doubles as a portrait of a couple trying to do something awkwardly mature.

"People would ask me to build something, do a portrait of their kids.

There's something about a portrait of a room that's as compelling as a portrait of a person.