Sentence examples for a precise portrait from inspiring English sources

Mr. Keegan's smoothly arrogant Chad is a precise portrait of 21st-century entitlement, junior class.

Their occasionally stormy relationship is a precise portrait of young lovers struggling to adapt to the more relaxed rules of the sexual revolution.

And Mr. Birney is excellent as ever, turning in a precise portrait of a middle-aged man trying to mask his flailing ego under a bright veneer of competence and good cheer.

Without resort to caricature, Garrone's latterday Shock Treatment paints a precise portrait of modern madness in which the world contracts from the sweeping cinematic vistas of the opening shot to the vacuum-sealed confinements of the televisual malaise.

"Exhibition," the third feature by British director Joanna Hogg, is an unnervingly precise portrait of an artist couple preparing to vacate their sleek modernist home — a dissection of a marriage in midlife, of the space between two people.

The Neapolitan novels are as much a story of class as they are of gender; in the second and third volumes, Ferrante offers a vividly precise portrait of the lingering (irrational) feelings of inadequacy that haunts those who start with nothing.

A few months ago, a different and more demographically precise portrait of white culture arrived, bearing a fulsome blurb ("Revelatory!") from Lander himself.

"She wrote a very angry and very precise portrait of what she considered the male to be: something between a human and an ape; an unresponsive blob only concerned with physical sensation and without the capacity for empathy or self-knowledge or intimacy, and at the same time full of hatred and jealously and shame and guilt.

Martin's medical school, the University of Winnemac, "a Ford Motor Factory" where "buildings are measured by the mile," is a precise pen portrait of the University of Michigan.

But "The Future" is much more than a precise, deadpan portrait of a sensibility likely to be recognizable to the Sophies and the Jasons in the audience (or to anyone who has run into them at the local coffee shop, organic bakery or artisanal ice cream truck).

A precise molecular portrait of adult heart formation was drawn through whole genome analysis of the temporal dynamics of heart-specific gene expression [ 16].