Sentence examples for novel portrait from inspiring English sources
She told how her reputation had been made among Paris's intellectual gratin thanks to a preface by Jean-Paul Sartre to her novel Portrait of a Man Unknown.
After the bluster of accolades that followed The Piano, her adaptation of the Henry James novel Portrait of a Lady, star ring Nicole Kidman, was not a critical success.
Her new novel, PORTRAIT IN SEPIA (HarperCollins, $26), which has been elegantly translated by Margaret Sayers Peden, smoothly transports readers from opulently appointed mansions to a back-alley opium den in San Francisco's Chinatown to a squalid field hospital during Chile's invasion of Peru in the War of the Pacific.
In the latest Allon novel, Portrait of a Spy, Gabriel and his wife Chiara are retired living in England.
Below is a short clip from the show in which Arianna discusses how the nomination of Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State has left the realm of politics and entered that of a Henry James novel, 'Portrait of a Secretary of State,' perhaps.
The greatest human yearning, Marai suggests in his newly translated novel, "Portraits of a Marriage," is to recover the sense of belonging and possibility that attaches to childhood, that ghostly sensation of how things felt when life was most promising: "simpler, but more mysterious and more important".
The remaining 16 novel portrait- trait adjective pairs served as control trials to measure participants' learning of new portrait- trait adjective pairs.
Cued recall was higher for old (previously implied) than the novel portraits' trait adjectives, indicating validity of the applied test procedures.
As unofficial editor of The Egoist (London) and later as London editor of The Little Review (New York City), he saw to the publication of Joyce's novels Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses, thus spreading Joyce's name and securing financial assistance for him.
His fiction includes short stories; bildungsromane (Mr Perrin and Mr Traill, 1911, and the Jeremy trilogy) that delve into the psychology of boyhood; gothic horror novels (Portrait of a Man with Red Hair, 1925, and The Killer and The Slain, 1942); a period family saga (the Herries chronicle) and even detective fiction (Behind the Screen).
Over the years he has turned out historical novels, portraits of Czechs in emigration, mystery stories and opinion pieces attacking "political correctness".
