Sentence examples for negative portrait of from inspiring English sources

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

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.

Unfortunately "My Big Fat 80's Bar Mitzvah" (Oct . 23 paints a negative portrait of the celebrations that ensued as one's children came of age in this era.

Tidying Defendant's Image The defense will probably put on its own witnesses in an attempt to erase the negative portrait of Mr. Taubman, only exacerbated by Ms. Brooks's testimony that in 1995 he even inquired about fixing the estimates of art works to be sold by the auction houses.

I tried to determine if SportsNet New York creates a negative portrait of Randolph, the Mets' manager, through its camerawork, as he told The Record of Hackensack, N.J., on Sunday, in an article filled with fulminations, for which he apologized Wednesday.

MIAMI — Intending to draw a fuller, perhaps more negative portrait of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed teenager who was shot and killed by George Zimmerman in early 2012, a lawyer for Mr. Zimmerman released new material on Thursday that depicted Mr. Martin as troubled at school and enamored of a "gangsta" culture.

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.

Juliet shows up toward the end of the exhibition in a reverse negative portrait -- a technique that results in a dark enigmatic shadow image of the subject.