Sentence examples for portrait a failure from inspiring English sources
Is Picasso's portrait a failure because it doesn't, in a photorealist way, resemble its subject?
He first photographed the writer on a rainy day in 1976, but he felt that the portrait was a failure.
Characteristically, Pound lit into her, pointing out that Prufrock is the "quintessence of futility" and that his is "a portrait of failure, or of a character which fails, and it would be false art to make it end on a note of triumph" and have him become "a reformed character breathing out fire and ozone".
Half of the painting was stripped down to the bare canvas by Manet, who felt that the portrait of his wife was a failure.
Although occasionally unsophisticated and repetitive, Barracuda ultimately succeeds in painting a deeply involving portrait of failure: of the pain that can result when a mind mired in shame turns against itself.
When Cézanne was painting a portrait of the critic Gustave Geffroy, he made him endure eighty sittings, over three months, before announcing the project a failure.
In 2007, an independent review panel appointed by BP and led by James A. Baker III, the former secretary of state, painted a scathing portrait of cultural failure at BP, finding that the company put profits before safety.
The song, which originally appeared on Ochs's 1969 album, "Rehearsals for Retirement," is a stark portrait of regret, failure, and sorrow: And it's all so strange Pictures lose their frame And I'll bet you never guessed There was so much pain So much pain Until the haggard ex-lover of a long-time loser Stands rejectedly by the door Doesn't Lenny live here anymore?
