Sentence examples for conventional portrait from inspiring English sources

What emerges is a picture of Philadelphia radically different from the conventional portrait of a staid old city.

In this brilliant coming-of-age novel, Marcelo Figueras does not offer a conventional portrait of Argentina's brutal past.

In 2007, it went to David Lindsay-Abaire's technically skilful but deeply conventional portrait of parental grief, Rabbit Hole.

Somehow these particulars, along with the man's hunched posture and gnarled hand, convey his personality as fully as a conventional portrait might.

The conventional portrait of a young woman with the fixed smile of the period, signed by Jean Marc Nattier in 1730, realized 177,500.

In Arthur T. Lewis's "Igbo Woman," a handsome but conventional portrait is enlivened by the intricate designs woven into the woman's robe and headdress.

Predic painted conventional portraits, rather chilly nudes and schmaltzy scenes of children asleep on graves.

But before he arrived at his Futurist mode, he was doing more conventional portraits.

These portraits differ from conventional portraits in several ways: they were not commissioned and were not owned by the sitters; nor were they owned by the artists.

Many of the districts that flipped Democratic this year, particularly in Sun Belt suburbs of Atlanta, Dallas, Houston and Orange County, have grown much more racially and economically diverse, defying conventional portraits of suburbia.

Playing off public monuments, these idiosyncratic pieces affirm once more that people are much more complicated than conventional portraits can ever indicate.