Sentence examples for given a portrait from inspiring English sources

Once again, we're given a portrait of a burned-out screenwriter with a taste for coke and 'ludes and alcohol, and his onetime lover, a troubled actress who specializes in "the old nothingness-and-grief routine" and who's on the fast track to dissolution and despair.

We are given a portrait of a cussing, abusive lout who seems to revel in bringing women, in particular, to tears by verbal abuse.

Before being sent overseas, Mr. Robertson, then stationed in California, wanted to give a portrait of himself to his mother.

I'm letting her speak and trying to give a portrait of Nevelson that she wanted people to see".

The British director Michael Winterbottom (the 1997 "Welcome to Sarajevo") directs a drama about three sisters that tries to give a portrait of modern-day, multi-ethnic London.

Abbott's original intention was to give a portrait of transcendence, to show how, through our imagination, we might be "lifted" out of narrow conceptions.

Diana Athill Jenny Uglow's Nature's Engraver (Faber), a life of the wonderful wood engraver Thomas Bewick, is beautifully produced and gives a portrait of a man so lovable and admirable that getting to know him well is a life-enhancing experience.

Narrated by a young boy, the soldier's younger brother, the story not only glorifies the love and the couple's escape from their stultifying village but also gives a portrait of an artist as a young man.

In "Quills," Ms. Winslet's frank virginal curiosity and Amelia Warner's panting recitation of pages from "Justine" give a portrait of an age in which sexual appetites weren't confined to men.

Then there's Andy Field's community project 500 Pieces, a story told in fragments by ordinary people that gives a portrait of the world as it was experienced by them at exactly 11.45 on the morning the hoard was discovered.

Collected in one place, this material gives a portrait of governmentwide insensitivity to scientific standards that, unless corrected, will further undermine the administration's credibility and the morale of its scientists.