Sentence examples for portrait of war from inspiring English sources
What emerges is a compelling and very human portrait of war.
If the "Aeneid" can hardly match the "Iliad" as a portrait of war, in some regards the successor excels the model.
At times it veered in that direction, but then it sucked me in and I no longer cared or noticed, because here was also something intense and moving, a love story and an extraordinary portrait of war that felt loyal in sentiment to Sebastian Faulks's novel.
It is perhaps a flaw in Jacqui Morris's excellent documentary portrait of war photographer Don McCullin that it implies he effectively retired in the early 1980s, having been alienated by the Sunday Times's new owner Rupert Murdoch and incoming editor Andrew Neil.
Joseph Heller's World War II novel, "Catch-22," is such a masterly portrait of war's inherent inanities that its title entered the dictionary as a synonym for any illogical situation.
Eisenstein's film proved to be a major inspiration for Olivier's screen adaptation of Henry V, even if Olivier never offered such an honest portrait of war's horrors.
You can see the play in many ways; Germaine Greer, in a programme note, interprets it as a mythic portrait of warring coupledom.
NEW HAVEN Thomas E. Golden, Jr. Center, Yale University "Portraits of War: The Democratic Republic of Congo," group show.
"I'd tell him, 'I'll beat the shit out of you if you try it.' " Cain's girlfriend, Leslie Lantz, a muscular, dark-eyed beauty, who had arrived from Texas the week before, was flipping through "Portraits of War," a book of Iraq-war drawings published by Detroit Free Press.
His portraits of war and peace found permanent homes at the Corcoran Gallery and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, the Dallas Museum of Fine Art, the de Young Museum in San Francisco, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, N.Y., and the Society of Illustrators in Manhattan.
In a series entitled, MANIPULATION//DISPLACED, she manipulates sourced photographs and journalism into abstract portraits of war and its collateral damage, which she then paints onto canvas.
