Sentence examples for defined portrait from inspiring English sources

While many of the facts of her life are in dispute, the film evokes a fairly defined portrait of a strong, decisive, well-educated woman destroyed by a paranoid husband.

They include the deceptively simple, but sharply defined, "Portrait of Katherine Salisbury Newkirk Hickok," from around 1825, by the folk artist Ammi Phillips, and a moody self-portrait by Willard Metcalf, an American Impressionist, which he painted around 1890, shortly after returning from an extended sojourn abroad.

Mr. Bridges lets it rip conversationally after leaving the museum for a Midtown restaurant, ordering steak tartar, spring rolls and white wine with something of the assertive geniality that defined his portrait of a United States president in last year's "Contender".

When this year began, most New Yorkers could have suggested any number of nominations for Rudolph Giuliani's defining portrait.

And it begins a rethinking of Tara itself, 65 years after Mitchell created her defining portrait of the Southern plantation house.

There's a new defining portrait of Abe Lincoln.

Oxford Art Online, a widely accepted academic source, cites a 1974 British Museum catalog that defines a portrait as an image "in which the artist is engaged with the personality of his sitter and is preoccupied with his or her characterization as an individual".

To the Editor: Last Sunday's Frugal Traveler column, "Even in Winter, Provincetown Shines" (Jan . 25, featured a wonderful photograph of Fisherman's Wharf with its huge defining portraits of Provincetown's fishermen's wives on the building.

Both Governor Bush and Vice President Gore have a lot of work to do to define distinctive portraits of themselves before the public.

But unless they win eight more games, the Yankees of 2012 will be defined by two portraits of pain, flashing neon reminders of the subtler message the game tells its fans every year.

The stability of the proposed control is locally evaluated and the attraction domain is defined using a phase portrait of the system.