Sentence examples for portrait of something from inspiring English sources

It's a late, scruffy, unrecognizable portrait of something or other.

It felt beautiful to try to make a portrait of something so common.

Halvard Solness, the title character of Henrik Ibsen's 1892 play "The Master Builder," is a portrait of something, but of what?

All of which would be significant enough, but this is a portrait of something else too: not just Bach, but his music.

Its first sentence is enviably disgusting: "My fondest teenage snogs tasted of fried fish and chips". His account of Chip Alley in Cardiff in the early hours is a portrait of something hellish but not quite hell: his evidently comradely nature impels him to excuse the legless bedlam and play down what must be the potent reek (oil, vinegar, vomit).

But, once Gilbert gets to work, and enlists the reluctant Sullivan in the project, "Topsy-Turvy" becomes an extraordinary portrait of how something of lasting value is made.

Doing a film portrait of 1973 was something I talked about for a long time.

The item could be a Civil War flag, a dining room table or a portrait of an ancestor, something passed down through generations or bought at a yard sale.

There are some surprises along the way; Meacham points out that Andrew Jackson, a demagogue when he chose to be, resisted the revivalism of his time in favor of separating faith from politics, and he presents a portrait of Franklin Roosevelt as something of a public theologian.

Her role in Sally Potter's Orlando (1992) is arguably the most significant Jarman-influenced film; Love Is the Devil, John Maybury's portrait of Francis Bacon, owes something to Caravaggio; Isaac Julien was perhaps emboldened to give his otherwise very un-Jarmanesque 1991 film Young Soul Rebels a gay theme.

Dureau's 1985 portrait of Robert Mapplethorpe shows us something else, something creepy: Mapplethorpe as** **the voyeur who's very interested in himself.