Sentence examples for devastating portrait of a from inspiring English sources
The buff actor has finally broken out of pinup-boy roles and delivers a subtle, devastating portrait of a broken man who, while at one point achieved an Olympic gold medal, can now only land a gig delivering an uninspired talk at a local school, earning a paltry $20 -- just enough for ramen noodles.
Together they create a devastating portrait of a marriage gone sour that still retains touching hints of its former sweetness.
"Happy Valley" is a devastating portrait of a community — and, by extension, a nation — put under a spell, even reduced to grateful infantilism, by the game of football.
Like other Lost Generation writers, he paints a devastating portrait of a civilization gone crazy because of hyperindustrialization and monopoly capitalism.
"1967" is a fascinating and devastating portrait of a society filled with self-doubt, then suddenly with power and messianic fervor.
A powerful series by William Glaberson of The Times has painted a devastating portrait of a lackadaisical court culture in which the main actors in the Bronx seem utterly paralyzed or incompetent.
Those barred include the impersonator Mr. Bremner, reporters from the television program Panorama, which broadcast a devastating portrait of the National Health Service under Labor, and the journalist and novelist Will Self, who admitted to taking drugs in the bathroom while travelling with Mr. Blair in the last campaign.
Stephen Parker's "definitive" biography, Bertold Brecht, presents a "devastating" portrait of its subject.
A former social worker who once was employed at a shelter for runaway children, she paints devastating portraits of children whose youth and innocence were stolen from them by irresponsible adults.
His comic masterpiece, once known as "The Confessions of Zeno" (1923) and recently retranslated as "Zeno's Conscience," a tender, devastating, hilarious portrait of modern man's absurd delusions, is now safely established as a classic of Italian literature; the critic Paul Bailey went so far as to declare it "arguably the greatest comic novel of the 20th century".
In the guise of a horror movie Mr. von Trier has made a wrenching portrait of a marriage devastated by grief.
