Sentence examples for in their portrait from inspiring English sources

In their portrait of desire and loneliness on the margins, Jenkins and McCraney use words masterfully and sparely, never giving in to an "inspirational" moment or a flowery turn of phrase.

I was struck by how little, in the end, it was ruled by its suspension-of-gender premise, despite it being what Ursula K. Le Guin calls a "thought-experiment". From a pure storytelling perspective, the sexual limbo of the Gethenians functions is just one piece — and not even necessarily the most important — in their portrait as a people and a culture.

By the 1950s, even presidents were smiling in their portraits.

That, too, is what the Austrian modernist painters did in their portraits.

His subjects, who appear completely unself-conscious in their portraits, are their own photographers.

In their portraits, the Assads wear suits or army fatigues and sunglasses, sometimes waving to an unseen crowd.

As a group, these artists sought to depict the unconscious, instinctual strivings of the people in their portraits, but each painter developed a distinctive way of using facial expressions and hand and body gestures to communicate those mental processes.

The reader is struck by the total absence of humbug in their portraits, and by the emotional clarity with which Schnitzler treats autobiographical material, for the callous, philandering Georg is an aristocratic, de-Semiticized version of himself.

The thing about Ramsay is that, unlike Reynolds and Gainsborough, who were quite imprecise in their portraits, he was a very accurate depicter of his subjects, so that if she looked slightly more African in his portraits than others, that might be because she was more well depicted.

That it had been five years since she held the No. 1 ranking did not preclude the two men behind the recent HBO documentary "The Black List" from including her in their portraits of 22 of the most fascinating and influential black Americans.

She made a conscious effort to show the Ford workers in a "heroic way" in their portraits, she added.