Sentence examples for portrait it from inspiring English sources

There are moments when England's Lane poses as a national portrait: "it is not just England's Lane that begins to stir," as the last page tells us, with the 1960s under way, "it is England's every lane and borough".

But if that narrow, even naive perspective is the flaw in this group portrait, it is linked to its greatest strength.

Although its austere monumentality is in sharp contrast with the Chandos portrait, it does have the high forehead, beard and mustache (but no earring) of that rendition.

"Give Mary McFadden portrait," it begins.

But what a pretty portrait it was!

"Overall, this is quite a bright portrait," it says.

A self-portrait, it also depicts that spring.

The two dealers who present her, when they exhibit that first nude self-portrait, it was without a title.

The first time I saw Gentileschi's self-portrait it was decorating a palace staircase.

In Harvey's intensely visual début collection of poems, a painter says of his self-portrait, "It was bigger than me.

Vice President Al Gore is so boring that when he painted a self-portrait it was a still life.