Sentence examples for portrait of itself from inspiring English sources

It is a cine-memoir of Sarah's parents, an extended family's portrait of itself.

The sonnet evokes Mallarmé's own sense of exile; in a strange way, it is a portrait of itself, embodying an aesthetic of submerged magnificence.

The contents of Lark Rise are a kind of superior gossip, the activity which, in John Berger's words, gives a village the means to make "a living portrait of itself".

His huge 1998 best-seller The Greatest Generation captured the American imagination in a way few recent books have done, providing the nation a vivid portrait of itself, of an entire generation that lived through the Great Depression and the second World War.

For Rubio, the Moon is a metaphorical blank slate an off-white canvas on which mankind can paint a new portrait of itself.

Indeed, a comprehensive definition of image that encompasses both perspectives is provided by Alvesson [ 39], for him image is the bright impression held by an actor towards an organization that has been nourished by the organization's projected portrait of itself (see also Hatch and Schultz [ 38]).

Along the way, Waheed gives us a portrait of Kashmir itself.

Susan Sontag describes the central role of the camera in everyday life in "On Photography": "Through photographs, each family constructs a portrait-chronicle of itself — a portable kit of images that bears witness to its connectedness".

Yet what has wound up on the stage is a portrait of desperation that itself feels harshly, wantonly desperate.

The result is a portrait of the water itself — an inky expanse streaked with oil and stray refuse.

His portrait of Ford is itself intriguing, following the young author and his sister, both gorgeous teenagers, who leave their native Mississippi to meet Gertrude Stein in Paris and experience la vie de bohème.