Sentence examples for definitive portrait from inspiring English sources
This was going to be the definitive portrait of Mies.
Ibsen provides drama's definitive portrait of the torch-bearing, missionary idealist.
But nothing matches Mr. Wyeth's definitive portrait of Lincoln Kirstein peering back over his shoulder.
In shaping its definitive portrait of Mr. Buffett, "The Snowball" need not make excessive claims of his importance.
Ms. Huppert creates yet another definitive portrait in her scary gallery of repressed women gripped by a clenched, explosive rage.
Like many people, I regard "The Bonfire of the Vanities," the definitive portrait of New York in the 1980s, as one of Wolfe's two masterpieces.
But Mr. Parks also enjoyed making definitive portraits of Barbra Streisand, Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, Alberto Giacometti and Alexander Calder.
"New York magazine is known for publishing these definitive portraits of moguls.
His definitive portraits of the powerful and the powerless — encompassing, in a manner almost without equal in the history of portraiture, the artistic and political hierarchies of the past half century of American life — were almost Roman in their severe authority.
His definitive portraits of the powerful and the powerless encompassing, in a manner almost without equal in the history of portraiture, the artistic and political hierarchies of the past half century of American life were almost Roman in their severe authority.
Liberated from the need to produce a varnished fiction, Leibovitz appears to notice much more: Brian Wilson like a sleepwalker by his pool, her mother sashaying as she washes the dishes, Bruce Springsteen in a dwam - details that don't get into the definitive portraits for which she is famous.
