Sentence examples for modest portrait from inspiring English sources

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The winner of the 2016 prize is Louise Hearman for her modest portrait of Australia's most famous expat, Barry Humphries.

What begins as modest portrait of a happy family gives way to a story in which the encroaching civil war decimates not only the country, but also the soul of a man who believes the pool is his entire life.

The answer – a firm "possibly" – is explored in this engrossing documentary; a scholarly detective yarn in which Kearney joins biographer Dr Paula Byrne in an effort to determine the provenance of a modest portrait of Austen previously dismissed as inauthentic.

Milsom's work, easily the largest and most commanding picture with the sepulchral figure of Waterstreet looming from the dark shadows like Nosfertau, towers over the rest of the works, including Mitch Cairns's more modest portrait of artist Peter Powditch, hung alongside Milsom's work and awarded the runner-up sticker of "highly commended" by the gallery trustees.

Echevarría offers a modest portrait of a proud man, and you will not forget the final shot of him padding away into a black, crusty Mexican moonscape — is that the end of the world, or the start of a new one?

With that kind of output, it is even usable outside during the daylight at modest portrait distances".

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It was showing modest portraits and still lifes at a time when abstract painting, the bigger the better, was considered the advanced style.

Like his 2008 book, "Indignation," "Nemesis" is a modest undertaking: a small-scale portrait of an era and of an earnest young man who finds the unstoppable engine of history steamrolling over his life.

Small portrait sized pictures.

It's a modest, sweet portrait of a thirteen-year-old boy, growing up in Worcestershire in 1982, who is afflicted with a stammer, unhappy parents, and a snide older sister.

"Hustle & Flow" ends with a burst of movie-ish mayhem, and then a burst of sentiment, but when Brewer, Howard, and Ludacris stick to the bitter texture of South Memphis failure and success they produce a modest regional portrait that could become a classic of its kind.

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