Sentence examples for negative portraits from inspiring English sources
Black activist groups thought they painted negative portraits of African-American masculinity.
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.
"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.
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.
And he denied that his film offered a negative portrait.
This negative portrait is by no means universal.
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.
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.
