Sentence examples for portrait of posturing from inspiring English sources

St John's Night, which a colleague once described to me as "wonderfully bonkers", looks like a piece of pure fantasy with its goblins, magic potions and mountain visions – yet there is a scathing realism in Ibsen's portrait of posturing poet who thinks he will return to his primitive roots by carrying a sheath-knife and restoring Old Norse.

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What she does is much more interesting: the performance is dry-eyed and free of camp posturing, the portrait of a woman whose theatricality is natural, both as an expression of her self and as a tool of her peculiar trade.

Even when he's posturing you can tell that it's still a portrait of the artist as a young man Kid Cudi – because he crystalized what was going on in the mid 2000's McKibbin Street loft scene.

Even Kees van Dongen's feeble 1921 portrait of a café society woman in a would-be alluring posture, "The Mauve Stiletto Shoes," managed to bring a surprising £2.05 million.

Yet you see the anxiety behind Arkadina's grand, silly postures; like Chekhov himself, Ms. Streep has drawn a portrait of comic ruthlessness and gentle understanding.

It's a portrait of a bare-chested and tattooed Jamaican man, one hand on his hip and posturing proudly.

Even the biography page of the site includes a line drawing based on a portrait of Rechy in a tight white T-shirt, leaning in classic muscle-queen posture against an invisible wall.

One is the 1968 portrait of the art collectors Fred and Marcia Weisman standing outdoors with some of their sculptures; their still postures and fierce expressions comically echo a Northwest Indian totem pole rising in the background.

That astonishing universality is missing, but this is a great portrait of an era: a world of women called Rusty, Betsy and Tewky, Elizabeth Taylor haircuts and university posture queen awards.

His 1909 portrait of President William Howard Taft is appropriately formal and, at the same time, refreshingly relaxed in both posture and brushstroke.