Sentence examples for faint portrait from inspiring English sources

Like the faint portrait of Stephen, this blank spot gives the collection a frustratingly unfinished feel.

The opening page of each story in "Third Class Superhero" bears a faint portrait of a chipper cold-war-era man who grins broadly beneath his perfect Brylcreemed haircut.

As details surface about Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old man who has been charged with the murder of nine people after a brutal church shooting spree Wednesday night in Charleston, South Carolina, a faint portrait of his religious background is emerging.

The light that astronomers are now seeing left the galaxy when the universe was less than 6% of its current age, so it may offer a faint, smudgy portrait of a galaxy in its infancy.

In an attempt to characterize the facial characteristics typical of criminals, he created what he called "composite portraits" by "throwing faint images of the several portraits, in succession, upon the same sensitised photographic plate".

If her achievement was, as McEwan puts it, "to make politics matter, both for those who loved her and those who opposed her", then there is a feeling among those interested in her creatively that most of the existing representations of her are merely provisional, faint outlines of a portrait still waiting to be completed.

Scientists had noticed the painting bears faint traces of another portrait beneath its surface.

So while the other damsels at the ball in "The Portrait of a Lady" faint, presumably from the corsets, Nicole Kidman struts about with her burnished hair wild and aswirl, utterly indifferent to her clothes, her eyes red-rimmed.

Most of his portraits are not for the faint of mind.

Like the president in Abydos, he sat beneath an empty nail; there was a faint smudge on the wall where Mubarak's portrait used to hang.

Shadows and faint figures are glimpsed through transparent screens; a portrait, presumably of the patriarchal ogre, floats like a fly in amber.