Sentence examples for familiar portrait from inspiring English sources

The fifth rule, beneath his familiar portrait in full military regalia, began: "We all make mistakes.

By Thomas Dormandy.Hambledon Press; 448 pages; £25THE dust-jacket of Thomas Dormandy's grimly compelling history of tuberculosis is decorated with a familiar portrait of the Brontë sisters.

North of the square, near the familiar portrait of Mao hanging on the vermilion wall of Tiananmen, seven villagers from Shandong Province huddled on a sidewalk curb.

I'd positioned my mother's two older brothers side by side, with their little brother behind them, and from that minimal geometry a familiar portrait emerged.

With references to Vikings and Norse mythology, "Saga" becomes darker, more gothic and more manipulative — less about an ordinary family in extraordinary conditions than a fairly familiar portrait of a man turning savage.

Dismantling the "towers of words" that one character speaks of in "Herakles" in favor of simpler language, Carson offers us a familiar portrait: Herakles is a man whose hubris, political and otherwise, brings his nobility to a crashing close.

Once again we are treated to familiar portraits of the also-rans: not just Bill Bradley and John McCain, but the likes of Gary Bauer, Orrin Hatch, Elizabeth Dole, Lamar Alexander, Steve Forbes and Alan Keyes as well.

The T-shirts display the grip of conformity from one generation to the next: familiar portraits of Che Guevara, John Lennon, Bob Marley, Mao Zedong, Kurt Cobain and an American Indian chief.

First, the two familiar portraits of Shakespeare the Droeshout engraving from the First Folio and the Stratford bust at Holy Trinity Church, in his home town are not "thought to be" portraits of Shakespeare or "widely accepted" as portraits of Shakespeare.

Steven Johnson's essay "I Was an Under-Age Semiotician" (Oct . 16 paints an all-too-familiar portrait of semiotics as jargon-laden and ridiculous.

"Reader, looke / not on his Picture, but his Booke" was Ben Jonson's advice right there at the start, on the title page of the First Folio, confronting the familiar Droeshout portrait of the unprepossessing bald guy with the ruff.