Sentence examples for portrait achieved from inspiring English sources

The latter play deals with Albee's perceptions and feelings about his mother and is a remarkable portrait achieved by presenting the interaction of three women, who resemble each other, at different stages of life.

A Card from Angela Carter by Susannah Clapp (Bloomsbury) is a small masterpiece; in close-up, a warm and intimate portrait achieved with the most minimal, impressionistic strokes, in wide-angle what its author calls "a zigzag path through the 80s".

"Like its subject, Istanbul's Galata Bridge, this pocket-sized portrait achieves an extraordinary historical and cultural span.

But he is candid about his sympathies or his lack of them; and he has given us the fullest and most plausible portrait yet achieved.

Virtually all his pictures, he said, even the baby portraits, were achieved in just one shot.

And the settings of Heine from Schubert's final collection Schwanengesang became a series of vividly etched portraits, all achieved by Prégardien and Vignoles without any hint of caricature or exaggeration, and with the integrity of each musical line always rigorously respected.

A superb screenplay, co-written by Odets, was the launchpad for Alexander Mackendrick's vividly achieved portrait of obsession and betrayal.

Returning to her Philadelphia studio, Beaux earned a reputation as one of the city's best portrait painters and achieved considerable success over the next several years.

Bradford's Encyclopedia in 1820; an engraving of General Andrew Jackson by Longacre based on a portrait by Thomas Sully achieved wide sales.

At lot #8, Jean Michel Basquiat's haunting 1985 Self-Portrait (below, left) achieved the highest bid of the night, selling within estimate to a telephone bidder for £2,057,250 ($3,246,690) and proving a five times increase for the artist.

Conway believed the strength of the portrait is in part achieved through Dürer's ability to convey this hardship, while at the same time presenting a man still imbued with traces of pride, and possessing "a kind old face".