Sentence examples for genial portrait from inspiring English sources
A more genial portrait of mindlessness is being offered by Victoria Hamilton in W. Somerset Maugham's "Home and Beauty," a 1918 comedy whose pampered heroine has wound up married to two handsome army officers.
The novel is full of wondrous things — several genial character portraits, funny and exact depictions of West Berlin (bars, hippie communes, radical tyranny, bourgeois bohemianism), beautiful evocations of Chicago ("I could feel Lake Michigan. You could feel all of the Great Lakes and their conspiracies of ice crystals and surface winds").
Having come to New York from San Francisco in 1984 to pursue his art career, he began to draw notice with his genial gadfly presence and irreverent video portrait of the art world.
After running unbroken for miles, it falls away to a concrete guardhouse flanked by a huge portrait of Saddam Hussein, unnervingly genial in a sky-blue suit.
Sam's genial, bow tie-wearing grandfather gazes out from a portrait.
His portraits were gently humorous, in keeping with his genial disposition.
To the left is a self-portrait from 15 years earlier, the image of a robust, genial man with a direct, wide-eyed gaze and a generous beard.
Indeed the portrait reflects character traits noted by his friends, who described him as honest, intelligent and genial.
airy composition and genial use of color," as Benfey writes, is a very different painting from "Cotton Office," with its distinct portraits, complex arrangement of figures and detail rendered so meticulously that you can almost read the addresses on the discarded envelopes in a trash basket.
