Sentence examples for damaging portrait from inspiring English sources

After Mr. Blagojevich's appearance, two of his lawyers, Sam Adam Jr. and Sheldon Sorosky, took questions from reporters, and said prosecutors had used bits and pieces of the governor's recorded conversations to draw a damaging portrait of him.

The coins were evidently cut face-up to avoid damaging the portrait.

Hated makes for a grim portrait of a man damaged on many levels, whose one "asset" was his kamikaze approach to life, art and morality.

But, he said, the great-grandchildren sent a letter through a Valencia lawyer seeking to erase the portrait entirely because the work "damages the honor of the family".

(One of Mr. Stingel's darker self-portraits, based on a similarly damaged photograph, hangs in a corner of the ground floor, as if intended as a signature).

In a cement-walled room decorated with painted murals of tropical landscapes, men and women huddle around Hisham's computer and hold up old portraits next to the grotesquely damaged faces, looking for a likeness.

In that poem Sapphire's fierce language created a disturbing portrait of a troubled adolescent, so damaged and unhinged that he is capable of going out and beating a stranger half to death.

Although daguerreotypes like the one above on the left are famous for capturing vivid portraits of their subjects, many have been damaged in the 150 years since they were made.

"It clearly damaged his reputation and was very emotionally damaging to him and the Siddonses," said Peter Funnell, the NPG's curator of 19th century portraits.

A report on three of the first patients in China to contract a new strain of bird flu paints a grim portrait of severe pneumonia, septic shock and other complications that damaged the brain, kidney and other organs.

The clipping process invariably leaves the imperial portrait on the front of the coin intact, but often damages the mint mark, inscription, and the image on the obverse.