Sentence examples for portrait making from inspiring English sources

Hoft and Wintrich posed in front of the portrait, making the "O.K".

She claims to be "mortified" by the "showgirl" she plays on American talk shows, but colludes in the portrait; making food provides her with an elaborate double-entendre.

Christophe Honoré's radically unsentimental family portrait, "Making Plans for Léna," takes on a formidable challenge: How do you prevent viewers from losing patience with a central character whose neurotic, self-destructive behavior is so infuriating that the impulse is to flee?

Portrait making for me is about using the body and the surroundings to invite a narrative, not to describe a situation as it actually is.

In this moment of change, the portrait makes her immutable.

Perhaps unintentionally, the portrait makes beauty seem soul-destroying.

It could almost be a portrait made by a French sculptor of the 18th century.

A look at the full portrait makes that description less certain.

Chris Ofili won the Turner Prize in 1998 for a portrait made (partly) with cow dung.

Mrs. Obama's portrait makes for a more casual, if still elegant, look.

In museums, the chair in every portrait made me flinch, but I coveted the odalisques' sofas.