Sentence examples for imaginative portrait from inspiring English sources

In the process, Sutton (the director of "Memphis") conjures an imaginative portrait of lives that are fractured by painful burdens of reality and of fantasy.

In The Witch's Brat, Rosemary Sutcliff creates a seductive, imaginative portrait of a charismatic and difficult man, gifted in demanding the best from people even when it's almost too painful to give.

Set in the fictional city of Isola, but clearly intended as an imaginative portrait of McBain's own New York City, the novels took the reader inside the 87th Precinct station house to show how a group of ordinary policemen, including Detective Steve Carella, the heart and conscience of the squad room, struggled to stay on top of the mayhem around them.

Gentry's most unusual book was "The Last Days of the Late, Great State of California" (1968), an imaginative portrait of California's culture and politics under Gov. Ronald Reagan, which opens with a dramatic account of the state falling into the Pacific Ocean after a massive earthquake.

Most characteristic were his delicate portraits and imaginative drawings illustrative of the music of Richard Wagner, Berlioz, and others.

Back then, Mr. Clemente was noted for his self-regarding self-portraits and imaginative musings on the life of the body; in this show he reveals a preoccupation with death.

My imaginative participation in his portraits is pretty much limited to sharing the pleasure of the sitters — commonly posed with arms draped over the back of a chair or, standing, with one arm rakishly akimbo — at being able to afford the great one's fee.

The gifted creative crafts colorful and imaginative forms from fantastical portraits to exotic birds using tools like Inkscape and EZ-Keys, which allow Saulter to create without using his hands.

Many of the artist's most spectacular English achievements are absent - notably, Charles I in the Hunting Field, the most imaginative of all the royal portraits.

Simple but imaginative sets by Albere, including a portrait gallery inspired by Edward Gorey's illustrations, and David Auxier's spirited choreography added to the production's appeal.

It is a book that offers neither a persuasive portrait of McCullers's imaginative life nor a useful assessment of her memorable but narrow body of work.