Sentence examples for astonishing portrait from inspiring English sources

It's an astonishing portrait of a fancily dressed lute player, rendered swiftly in raking, sonorous light.

But it's hard cheese for The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer's astonishing portrait of the unrepentant "gangster" killers of Indonesia.

They also have a purely allegorical interpretation of the astonishing portrait in which a young man, pale-faced, slightly reptilian, bends over the books in his study.

"It was literally like being let out of prison," says Sebastian Barry of his new novel Days Without End, an astonishing portrait of mid-19th century America as seen through the eyes of a young Irish emigrant.

Instead, Farid el-Deeb painted an astonishing portrait of a leader who was "clean and could say no wrong", and lambasted his courtroom adversaries for besmirching Mubarak's family with "libel and slander".

As her brother, Sam Kelly also paints an astonishing portrait of a man who is semi-detached from life and whose moustache seems to droop with a sense of disappointment.

An artist identified on Flickr as iri5 has made astonishing portraits of rock musicians from tape carefully extracted from cassettes.

Two astonishing portraits of Stevenson hang side by side to create one of this show's most dazzling moments.

This astonishing bronze portrait of a cat is actually a representation of the cat goddess Bastet.

Out of his New Mexican exile – manic, peyote-fuelled – came his best 1970s work, his brilliant snooker-playing cowboy Ripley in Wim Wenders's The American Friend, his astonishing, wild portrait of a soldier returning from Vietnam in Henry Jaglom's Tracks, and his manic photographer in Apocalypse Now.

Happily, one of these astonishing Dietrich portraits hangs here.