Sentence examples for amiable portrait from inspiring English sources

Culled from interviews with the subject, this compilation offers an amiable portrait of the influential gallerist, curator, and museum director.

Harmony is the focus: the show presents an almost pastoral perspective with its amiable portrait of cultural transmission and trade.

"The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin" (1977) wittily sent up Soviet politics and army life (and pre-World War II party-line fiction) through its subversive portrait of an amiable, not-too-bright slob who is charged with desertion and treason.

If Howard appears thinnish though amiable, Mr. Hamblyn has drawn a vivid portrait of the rage for science that flourished in England early in the century.

Tomorrow – fresh from a stint in Peter Hall's production of The Portrait of a Lady – the amiable actor makes his West End debut in Lisa Kron's comedy Well, when it transfers to the Apollo in London.

Still, the author is an amiable companion on the road, and his portrait, though neither gritty nor entirely fresh, will satisfy those who can't get enough of Secretariat.

Among them is the amiable "Still Life With Pigeon" (1917-19), a lyrical portrait of the model Marie-Thérèse Walter, and the suite of late, great etchings showing the artist as a demented geriatric salivating over naked women.

Then he said, 'Yeah, yeah, I realize how badly Shrum screwed me.' " A few weeks ago, between Kerry's trips to Europe and the Middle East, I had dinner with Kerry and Heinz at their house in Georgetown, a twenty-three-room mansion decorated with Early American portraits, Dutch still-lifes, and an amiable yellow Labrador retriever named Ben.

The amiable and soft visage of the female in Nolde's Portrait of a Woman with Dark Hair cast an inevitably dreaminess over the subject.

The mother has remarried; her husband is an amiable but inert lump of uppercrust WASP matter, one of many droll portraits drawn from that bastion of stricken privilege: "a particular brand of New York Calvinism that had strong opinions about predestination and free will, their existence justified by their own success".

How amiable.