Sentence examples for negative portrait from inspiring English sources

This negative portrait is by no means universal.

And he denied that his film offered a negative portrait.

But Jackson also refused to paint an overtly negative portrait of him.

Undoubtedly he better understood Edith Frank's protective tremors, and was unwilling to perpetuate a negative portrait.

Q Will the Bronx ever shake its negative portrait in Tom Wolfe's novel "The Bonfire of the Vanities"?

In 1968, he won a state prize for "Solyanay Pad," a novel with a negative portrait of a fanatic Communist leader in a village in Siberia.

Black activist groups thought they painted negative portraits of African-American masculinity.

"There are a lot of books being produced that are tales of distress and negative portraits of society," noted Neil Bissoondath, a novelist from Trinidad who teaches creative writing at Laval University in Quebec City.

In the seventies, some third-rate critics seemed to encounter his books with an accountant's pencil, tallying "positive" and "negative" portraits of Jews, and sometimes found him wanting.

Hancock's most influential 20th century detractor was historian James Truslow Adams, who wrote negative portraits of Hancock in Harper's Magazine and the Dictionary of American Biography in the 1930s.

The first portrait-description pair, and every second remaining portrait-description pair, was neutral, and between these the positive and negative portrait-description pairs alternated.