Sentence examples for dim portrait from inspiring English sources

The report's findings, while often self-evident, painted a dim portrait of local media.

This startling statistics paints a dim portrait of the effects of the gender education gap as a barrier to destroying global economic deprivation.

And on occasion, they paint a dim portrait of the current economy -- in more depressed terms than the president and his campaign would use –- with warnings that Romney would take send it into a free-fall.

A biographer of Jane Austen has accused the Bank of England of making the author look "dim-witted" in its choice of portrait for the new £10 note.

Finally, the big moment approached: the lights dimmed as a black-and-white portrait of the star shone brightly on a projector screen.

Two luminous, life-infused portraits glow from within a dim, heavy frame at the Biltmore Theater, where "LoveMusik" opened last night.

Instead, we felt like house guests, an impression enhanced both by the slightly untidy tone of the place and by family portraits on the walls dating from the dim past into the mid-20th century.

But there is nothing remotely simple about Michael Stuhlbarg's portrait of this character, which finds embers of a scorching slyness within a brain made dim by torture.

A two-channel video projection plays in a dim space furnished in the style of a 1970s living room and lined with large, silk-screened portraits of prominent entertainment figures: Diahann Carroll, Diana Ross, Pam Grier, Naomi Sims.

You can almost see the dim lit workplace of this famous painter in front of you when you're looking at his self-portraits.

Of equal power is the portrait of Olivier, seen in a series of potent glimpses, as the light inside him flickers and dims.