Sentence examples for low-key portrait from inspiring English sources
This low-key portrait of a middle-class Midwestern marriage lets you know that it was written according to strict and orthodox rules as to what a play should be.
My Night with Maud in some ways can be seen as a blueprint for Rohmer's later films, effectively bucking that era's prevailing air of rebellion with a low-key portrait of a man wrestling to equate his Catholicism with his love for a woman who does not believe what he believes.
Breasts are central to Mr. Swanberg's low-key, sexed-up portraits of amateur 20-somethings: a sort of Girls Gone Mild for the microcinema set.
At the White House, inside the East Wing, members of the President's Marine Band, in scarlet jackets, played low-key jazz beneath a portrait of Bill Clinton.
Novelist and futurist James Howard Kunstler published World Made by Hand, a subtle, low-key, and enormously persuasive portrait of an early 21st-century United States that suffers a series of terrorist attacks and the cutoff of foreign oil.
Chastain's performance is low-key throughout, delicately creating a portrait of a naïve young woman shattered by betrayal.
In his low-key questioning, Mr. Jasper tried to conjure a portrait of Mr. Massino as a remorseless, calculating criminal who hoarded gold and power and would do anything to avoid being sentenced to death.
The film is a striking portrait of a social class and a low-key allegory about a country in moral crisis.
Not surprisingly, given the circumstances, it was not a particularly polished production, but Stay Home offered a surprisingly intimate portrait of a social injustice – quiet and low-key but somehow intense.
