Sentence examples for a telling portrait from inspiring English sources

That he did, despite not being in on it, was a telling portrait.

As a telling portrait of the sober and hardworking rural dwellers of the Midwest, the painting has become one of the best-known icons of American art.

The Studio (1969) is a telling portrait of the motion-picture industry as seen through the eyes of the movie studio executives.

At its best, "The Canal Builders" pre­sents a telling portrait of exploitation, privilege and insularity, backed by a mountain of fresh research.

The bridesmaids running for their lives give a telling portrait of how contemporary women view marriage: they're at polar ends from their mothers or grandmothers.

Finney's comments, coupled with a telling portrait by the newspaper's acclaimed photographer, the late Jane Bown, reveal both his appetite for life and his concern to make the right artistic choices.

Written in extraordinarily pared-down prose, it is a depressing but forceful work.Suzanne Raitt offers a sympathetic and intellectually telling portrait of a writer who lived at a time when combining high artistic ambitions with husband and children seemed near-impossible for many women.

This body of work, beyond its personal interest, constitutes a clear and telling portrait of French intellectual life from the 1930s to the 1970s.

Mr. Klebnikov, to show what this means, offers a brief but telling portrait of the lives of the new Russian elite, one almost worthy of Thorstein Veblen and "The Theory of the Leisure Class".

Four academics confirmed this telling portrait.

"Rebels and Martyrs" opens with a telling self-portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds, who in 1768 led the Royal Academy of Arts in London to raise the social standing of artists.