Sentence examples for cumulative portrait from inspiring English sources

"If you put these people together in the right way, you get the cumulative portrait of where we're going".

Taken together, the item descriptions provide a running, cumulative portrait of one couple's glorious rise and deflating fall.

There were prints, though Leonardo's cumulative portrait, gradually painted over several years, had long proved extremely hard to copy as an engraving.

These models, now being tested in several states, try to create a cumulative portrait of each student's progress through school as a way of identifying successful schools and successful teaching strategies.

Given Leonardo's circuitous working habits - his tendency, both personal and professional, to recycle a subject in various different versions - it is possible that both dates are broadly correct, and that the Mona Lisa is a cumulative portrait, begun around 1503 and completed, with a different face, more than ten years later.

He piles up his words with great skill; no matter how slowly they're sung, the ideas in a Merritt song have momentum, and the cumulative self-portrait that he presents, in his dry singing style he has a lovely conversational bass voice is of a queer boy perpetually in search of love, a kind of daffy and sardonic Noël Coward, whose lyrics radiate smarty-pants sophistication.

He piles up his words with great skill; no matter how slowly they're sung, the ideas in a Merritt song have momentum, and the cumulative self-portrait that he presents, in his dry singing style — he has a lovely conversational bass voice — is of a queer boy perpetually in search of love, a kind of daffy and sardonic Noël Coward, whose lyrics radiate smarty-pants sophistication.

The cumulative result is a powerful portrait of humanity in the face of everyday atrocity.

Goldberger's screenplay manages to replace the casualness of a character portrait with the cumulative, torsional narrative of a thriller, while surreptitiously maintaining its priority of detail the entire time.

The portraits are serious and even sympathetic, and their cumulative effect is to make readers realize that they understand a lot less about sex than they thought.

In some basic way, any great artist's cumulative output, whole or in part, amounts to a self-portrait, the record of a spiritual journey, no matter how much or how little biographical data it actually conveys.