TACT's production of Václav Havel's early play, first produced in Prague in 1965, is a vivid portrait of mind-numbing bureaucratic life in Eastern Europe under Communism.
An authorized biography, "Jacques Barzun: Portrait of a Mind," by Michael Murray, was published in 2011.
Christopher Tolkien presents his compilation as "a memorial", a portrait of a mind.
C. S. Lewis's "A Grief Observed" captures the halting, cyclical nature of mourning, and offers an extraordinarily lucid portrait of a mind in pain.
In her portrait of a mind under pressure, tying itself in knots, hovering between overwhelming sensation and disassociated numbness, Lacey has produced a novel of uncomfortable power.
Austerlitz's memories of his childhood in Sebald's final novel build to an anxious, enigmatic portrait of a mind trying to place itself in time.
The women — one rational, modest and in control; the other wild, sexual and almost demonic — make up a portrait of a mind at war with itself.
Like John Banville in The Book of Evidence, Patrick McCabe has given us a shockingly intimate portrait of a mind out of kilter, but in the company of Francie Brady he guides us a good few steps further into hell.
Although you can extrapolate from the show a portrait of a mind withdrawing into a strictly circumscribed fantasy world to banish the pain or frustration of the real one, Rambo Nut is more conceit than character.
The author's website describes the biography as "a true portrait of the mind, the life, and the military and above all political genius of a fundamentally constructive ruler".
Read a bunch of stories by the same writer, and you come away with a portrait of a mind in mosaic — if she's not much good, the cracks will soon show; if she is, you're privy to something exquisite.
