Sentence examples for chilling portrait from inspiring English sources

The book has the suspense of a John le Carré novel, and offers a visceral, chilling portrait of the distrust that permeated everyday German life during the war.

Nonetheless, as a geophysical horror story the book works well and presents a detailed, chilling portrait of one really awful moment in paradise.

His stories, written between 1900 and his death at the Somme in 1916, bear the hallmarks of Oscar Wilde and Henry James, are as funny as Wilde, Wodehouse and Waugh, possess plotting exquisite enough to bear significant elaboration but rarely last longer than three pages, and are brought off with a wonderfully light touch, while presenting a disturbingly chilling portrait of humankind.

A chilling portrait of intolerance.

The loose brush strokes convey a chilling portrait -- a brutal scene rendered with whimsy.

The Teachers The picture of Michael at school is a chilling portrait of a boy unraveling.

He constructs a chilling yet dispassionate portrait of "The Bitch of Buchenwald", Ilse Koch, whose name is only ever omitted from any list of the Ten Most Evil Women in the World through negligence.

Shifting alliances at home and abroad, ruthless accumulation of capital and endless court intrigues form the backdrop to Thomas Penn's Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England (Allen Lane), a chilling and enticing portrait of Henry VII, the founder of the Tudor dynasty that created a centralised English state.

Polonsky's writing can be overwrought, and her narrative sometimes loses its way in a thicket of detail, but the book comes to chilling life with her portrait of Molotov, once described by Winston Churchill as a man of "outstanding ability and cold-blooded ruthlessness".

That scene in particular, which occurs early in the film, gives you a sense of what's to come: a chilling, tragic and fascinating portrait of life under the thumb of Big Brother Kim.

The portrait she painted was chilling.