Sentence examples for portrait of humanity from inspiring English sources

More likely this is a generalised – and bleak – portrait of humanity at its best and worst.

The cumulative result is a powerful portrait of humanity in the face of everyday atrocity.

L'Assommoir - as it was for his contemporaries - is the best way to begin exploring his vast portrait of humanity.

It was a slightly grim but gentle portrait of humanity passing by on the journey through life, its tone a subtle mix of Woody Allen and Samuel Beckett.

Two venerable figures — the musician Ned Rothenberg and the performance artist Rinde Eckert — take the stage in "Five Beasts," a portrait of humanity as seen through the eyes of animals.

Two venerable figures the musician Ned Rothenberg and the performance artist Rinde Eckert take the stage in "Five Beasts," a portrait of humanity as seen through the eyes of animals.

His portraits of humanity in extremis (war, famine, poverty and worse) were captured through a blend of gung ho intervention (putting himself in the line of fire) and rigid moral interrogation (he always sought permission from those he photographed), combined with a technical expertise and artistic intuition that is second to none.

When Delacroix painted his epic landscape portrait of suffering humanity, Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi, he was commemorating a real event of recent history, the exodus of April 22 1826 when 7,000 starving citizens of Missolonghi attempted to break out of the city, then under long-term Turkish siege.

Its portrait of a doomed humanity who have ruined the world but will do nothing about it was so devastating that it made Sarah Kane's Blasted look like The Sound of Music – and, unlike Kane's play, it wasn't even fictional.

Gibb scales her story small, twists her sentences into prickly, unsentimental assaults and ends up with a portrait of terrible, comic humanity.

Comprehensive molecular portraits of human breast tumors.