Sentence examples for forbidding portrait from inspiring English sources
Something "impermeable," Hans Holbein suspects as he paints Cromwell's forbidding portrait.
Last night, he spoke movingly of the need to provide better care for returning veterans, a cause for which he has created a foundation, and then he set the stage for the following speakers with a vague and forbidding portrait of the world.
The succession of mostly bearded and waistcoated worthies who occupied the White House in the Gilded Age all share the period's fusty mien, at least in their forbidding White House portraits, though the oldest of the group, Benjamin Harrison, was sworn in at 55, nine years younger than George H. W. Bush; the youngest of that era, Theodore Roosevelt, at 42 was also the youngest in history.
The Mint thought it understood what had gone wrong with the Susan B. Anthony coin: It looked like a quarter, and the portrait of Anthony was rather forbidding.
Her portraits showed her as stiff and forbidding; in private, however, she was proud, warm, kind-hearted and impulsive".
From buildings to families, the strategy of visual analysis stayed the same: forbidding like his streetscapes, Mr. Struth's family portraits, which he began to take during the 1980's, gradually yielded up their intimacies.
But the portrait is more than all this, with its forbidding atmosphere and chilly white light.
For his video-portraits series, Wilson places his subjects in surreal scenery, forbidding all but the simplest gestures.
The three-and-a-half-decade relationship of the British writer Christopher Isherwood and the American portrait artist Don Bachardy is one of the ultimate true stories of a proto-gay-marriage succeeding in a forbidding climate.
Seductive and forbidding.
