Sentence examples for ordinary portrait from inspiring English sources

Some of the women in her work look rather dumfounded, as though they'd expected to sit for an ordinary portrait and ended up in some Surrealist nightmare.

But these are no ordinary portraits.

But this is no ordinary pop portrait.

RED BANK 10 x 10 Gallery "Out of the Ordinary," exhibition of portraits by Daphne Confar and Donald Redner.

Sometimes the ordinary black-and-white portrait just isn't enough.

By Maria Lokke July 1, 2010 Sometimes the ordinary black-and-white portrait just isn't enough.

Still, that's hardly worth complaining about when Schine has given us such a rich portrait of ordinary life.

Mr. MacIvor's play, which is about a teenage girl -- Roberta, hence Bob -- hitchhiking to the beach, away from what turn out to be some gruesome experiences at home in Sydney, provides an understated, convincing portrait of ordinary girlhood.

The story of little Terry growing up in Herringfleet, a fishing village turned industrial town, is a richly imagined set piece that's also quite an affecting portrait of ordinary English life in the years leading up to World War II.

"Men of a Certain Age" is not violent, exciting or fast paced, but the series has a quiet charm of its own: it is a believable, sharply observed portrait of ordinary men who, through all-too-common bad breaks and missteps, feel that they are backsliding.

Portraits of ordinary everyday black women are spotlighted, poised as though they are royalty.