My work -- some 25 feature-length films, 30 shorts, installations -- could be said to draw a portrait of exactly why I did not choose those paths.
The Telling Error is full of portraits of marriages – why?
If the stated aim of the collection is to provide a portrait of the UK, why don't these essays leave England?
Alex Witchel's delightful portrait of Richard Greenberg shows why even fellow playwrights should admire his extraordinary success but not envy it (March 26).
And Pepys no doubt asked himself: if the essence of a sovereign could be rendered so exquisitely in oil paint (as, for example, by the Pieter Nason portrait of 1664), then why not other essences, more modest of course, yet manifesting nonetheless a noble singularity, a proud and distinct humanity?
"Why would so many people be against her?" "That lawyer for child aid who painted a portrait of her as overbearing — why would he lie?" Smith said.
In a way, it's as true a portrait of marriage as "Middlemarch": Why my wife owned a shotgun, I had no idea.
Stubbs had even less to go on for the dingo, which is no doubt why Portrait of a Large Dog looks more like something you might enter for Crufts than a feral beast from the outback.
When one of his colleagues saw he had a bill with a portrait of Saddam Hussein, he demanded, "Why d'ya want to get a bill with that [expletive] on it?" Suddenly a huge sandstorm has blown up and we can barely see a few feet in front of us.
Many submitted self-portraits to Reboot holding explanations of why they chose to unplug: "to be more connected," "to reset," "to spend more time with my family," "so my eye will stop twitching," "to bring back the beauty of life," "to be in the moment".
