She humorously and poignantly weaves women into the group portrait: one ferocious teenage lass (Vicki Manderson) and one long-suffering mother (Lorraine McIntosh).
Nor did it help that Anthony's portrait, firm-jawed and ferocious, hung in the catalog room of the town library.
Vuillard is Stravinsky, he writes: a radical Neo-Classicist, slyly subversive ("an incredible character assassination," "ferocious," "shameless," Mr. Cogeval intuits about various portraits).
Mr. Hawke will do everything but take tickets — act, direct, and sing his way through a scabrous portrait of a talented rocker and ferocious addict who is on his way to hell and leaves claw marks in everything around him as he goes.
Sheridan's prose style is Chekhov by way of Monty Python and Rabelais, and this extravagantly sympathetic portrait of all the parties involved — including the ferocious, torchbearing Doris — is hilarious.
In some character studies by Leonardo da Vinci, Hogarth, or Honoré Daumier, the passions reflected are so violent, the grimaces so ferocious, that it is impossible to tell whether the works were meant as portraits or caricatures.
A Brueghelesque self-portrait en famille, from 1927, finds Dix displaying bad teeth in a ferocious rictus, as he contemplates a distinctly unappealing baby son on Martha's lap.
Mr. Obama offered an optimistic portrait of America and a strong defense of his policies, but also unleashed by far his most ferocious attack yet on Mr. Trump, even portraying the Republican nominee as a threat to the country.
Rosetsu: Ferocious Brush.
