Sentence examples for dying portrait from inspiring English sources

Like the latter-day David Hollis, Hallam is testy, suspicious and prone to brooding about slights; but his sufferings — against everything from cutthroat competition to the cold — are made vivid and real, and we don't see them abate until he joins forces with Sam Ennis, a dying portrait photographer.

For nearly two years, I found myself dying to take portraits of all the stylish people I saw around town.

'When he was dying I took his portrait - and later I gave the photograph to Robert.

Hitchens's "Mortality" — an extraordinary book — offers an exquisitely detailed portrait of dying underscored by the author's reluctance to be sentimental and his hatred of self-pity.

The portraits of dying and martyred saints need cleaning and repair, but scudding clouds and sunset streaks can still be made out in the backgrounds.

Films including To Die For, The Portrait of A Lady, and Eyes Wide Shut followed.

The novelist Erica Jong, best known for her novel Fear of Flying, did start to sit for him with her large poodle, but unfortunately it died before the portrait was finished.

Bob Willoughby, whose photographs, taken on location, of Audrey Hepburn, Frank Sinatra, Dustin Hoffman and other stars brought a new intimacy and spontaneity to the Hollywood portrait, died on Dec. 18 at his home in Vence, in the South of France.

Ethel Redner Scull, who with her husband, Robert, achieved fame and social status in the 1960's by building one of the first major collections of Pop and Minimal art and becoming the subject of an Andy Warhol portrait, died on Monday at a retirement home in Manhattan.

"When I am dying, that will be the portrait I think of," she said.

Geoffrey Rush's extravagant portrait of a dying monarch in Exit the King took the top actor prize.