The phrase "achieve a portrait" is not commonly used in written English and may be confusing without context.
It could be used in artistic or metaphorical contexts where one aims to create or depict a representation of something or someone.
Example: "Through her meticulous brushwork, she aimed to achieve a portrait that captured the essence of her subject."
Alternatives: "create a portrait" or "depict a portrait".
A really incisive idea about what mattered most -- a theory of historical change, in short -- may allow a historian to write briefly and still achieve a better balanced portrait of the past than either of these books offers.
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Earlier, he had also achieved a striking portrait for Vogue of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor in 1966.
By Daniel Mendelsohn In the figure of the Persian king Xerxes, Herodotus achieved a magisterial portrait of an unstable despot, an archetype that has plagued the sleep of liberal democracies ever since.
Klimt was a striking portrait painter, swift to achieve a likeness, accurate to the point of genius.
On the other hand, the ravaged face of the late Humphrey Bogart stirred him to such pity that he achieved a truly memorable portrait, one that conveys an almost pathological sense of fear.
Pursuing these with depth and vigor, Blanning achieves a fresh and nuanced portrait.
In "The Collector of Worlds," Iliya Troyanov has turned Burton's unbelievable life into believable fiction, achieving a rounded and satisfying portrait that traditional biography could never match.
In this book, Ferret has achieved a unique and intimate portrait of horse use in Inner Asia, and I very much look forward to reading the sister volume.
Pursuing questions as varied as a pet's value in the years leading up to the war, how the idea of war-preparedness (or "doing things") goaded people into acting drastically (and often pointlessly), and how the event shaped thinking on animal rights, Kean achieves an unusual psychological portrait of a society in wartime.
THE first painting you are likely to see in the Metropolitan Museum's show of the 19th-century French artist Théodore Chassériau is one of the few by him that have achieved a measure of fame: his portrait of his sisters Adèle and Aline, pale and self-assured, identically dressed in pink-and-gold blouses and red cashmere shawls, staring impassively across the show's first gallery.
