Sentence examples for in its portrait from inspiring English sources

When the episode came out, it was divisive: some viewers found it overly cynical in its portrait of the mob.

In only one sense does it disappoint, but it's important: that is, in its portrait of the hero himself.

Our own Michael Billington, too, praised the revival, arguing it was "terrifyingly topical in its portrait of an individualistic society in which the few thrive at the expense of the many" and concluding: "What strikes one most … is its vivid timeliness, in a world where isolated female success still obscures the plight of the majority".

It is by turns wrenching in its portrait of a family battling illness and plodding in its depiction of the sociological realities of mid-century middle-class American life.

But it reminds me most of Peter Grimes in its portrait of a rancorously divided coastal village in 1907.

According to several people who have read it, the Senate report is particularly damning in its portrait of a C.I.A. so intent on justifying extreme interrogation techniques that it blatantly misled President George W. Bush, the White House, the Justice Department and the Congressional intelligence committees about the efficacy of its methods.

That novel is airy and comic, speedy and understated; it shares many grim ingredients with "Legends," including a C.I.A. whose presumptuous meddling destroys lives, but it has a warmth in its portraits of Russia and individual Russians that extends to the American heroine and her romantic involvement in the machinations of the state.

With the photographer Martha Cooper, Mr. Chalfant published "Subway Art" (1984), recently reissued by Chronicle Books; with the director and producer Tony Silver, he produced the documentary film "Style Wars" (1983), which included Mr. Martin in its portraits of graffiti and hip-hop artists.

In truth, its portrait was complex.

It caught the attention of Dwight Garner, who raved about it in the Times, finding in its grim portrait of veteran and immigrant life (flophouses, strip-mall kitchens, jails) "the finest and most unsentimental love story of the new decade".

The novel's strength lies in its unflinching portrait of friendship, driven as much by jealousy and competition as by love and loyalty.