Sentence examples for lively portrait from inspiring English sources
In addition to drawing a lively portrait of two people, Duberman chronicles the intersecting lives of dozens of artists, activists and visionaries across several decades — Martin Luther King Jr., Bayard Rustin, Andrea Dworkin and Adrienne Rich among them.
This Bancroft Prize-winning biography of the wife of America's second president is a lively portrait of that feisty lady.
The book works well at first, giving us an elegant and lively portrait of the vicissitudes of early manhood.
Swinnerton penned a detailed, lively portrait of his new author: "His excessive thinness, almost emaciation, caused him to appear endless.
This is a lively portrait of life among Northern California's white sharks and the dogged researchers who study them.
He presents a lively portrait of the rapacious "looting machine" in which international mining companies contrive with local African elites to strip the continent of its resources.
He draws equally lively portraits of the central characters in his story.
He can't seem to help embellishing the simple characters he is asked to paint; they become lively portraits of worms, fish and monkeys.
The selection here, including some lively portraits of young women, demonstrates how distinctive were these preparatory works and sketches, which gained wide circulation.
Sapolsky also sketches lively portraits of a wide range of figures, from Fossey to a Kenyan autodidact who wields his education against his brutal ranger-turned-poacher father.
Blackbourn explains the social and scientific ideas behind the impressive schemes that "rationalized" the German environment, provides lively portraits of the engineers and politicians involved, and traces the sometimes unintended consequences.
