Sentence examples for constructing a portrait from inspiring English sources

The suspense of whether Barbara will escape drives the plot, but Petzold's film focusses on constructing a portrait of a woman and her contradictory beliefs.

Historian Richard S. Dunn *52 *55 has spent the last 40 years constructing a portrait of the final decades of slavery.

As her title implies, Hill focuses on constructing a portrait of Wilder's growth and development as a writer and artist.

Mecier spent 50 hours constructing a portrait of its sassy child star Alana Thompson made entirely out of garbage.

Meanwhile, Scott reveals Armand's personal history in flashbacks, constructing a portrait of a man who, beneath his cultured and savvy facade, was ambitious, deceptive, enthralled by adventure and enraptured by the treasures of foreign lands, perhaps to his detriment.

She will construct a portrait of a young man, engaged with the visual landscape and committed to its documentation as his visual vocabulary evolves to embrace narrative form.

From then on, Godard constructs a portrait of Karina, putting a life, his love for her, on screen, trying to find that soul by way of the exterior.

Right now, the police can access that data only for investigations of particular crimes, making it harder to construct a portrait of the criminal networks behind gun crimes.

They are drawn from Griffiths's novel "let me tell you," which constructs a portrait of Shakespeare's Ophelia from the four-hundred-and-eighty-three-word vocabulary that the character is given in "Hamlet".

This documentary interweaves 70 years of Stuart Hall's film, radio and television appearances, and material from his private archive to document a memorable life and construct a portrait of Britain's foremost radical intellectual.

Shot with documentary realism, yet constructed with the carefully choreographed precision of a Swiss watch, this deftly blends life-and-death issues with down-to-earth drama to construct a portrait of good people driven apart by the clumsy mechanics of a rigidly ordered society.