Sentence examples for portrait off from inspiring English sources

After Mr. Klaus announced the amnesty in January, irate Czechs ripped his portrait off the walls of offices and schools across the country.

When former President Vaclav Klaus issued an amnesty decree at the beginning of the year that exonerated dozens of individuals on trial on financial corruption charges, the national outrage was so fierce that some mayors and teachers took his portrait off the walls of their offices and classrooms.

Our hero's arse slid down his grim portrait, Peeling off favourable quotes which had been stuck on that afternoon.

A fine Gilbert Stuart portrait shows off the charms of Mrs. Harrison Gray Otis (1809), a fashionable and vivacious Bostonian whose gown sports a risque plunging neckline.

Beckett had agreed to a photo, but as Bown waited in the theatre a stagehand slipped her a note saying that Beckett had changed his mind, and that the portrait was off.

"La Vie" (1903) and "Boy Leading a Horse" (1906) grapple with El Grecos, and "Self-Portrait with Palette" (1906) and two Cubist portraits face off against a Poussin and a Ribera.

"The Orphanage" is more benign than cynical, in that it takes the love of mother and child to be the magnetic north of all human relations, yet it also peels away the innocence from its portrait of youth, brushing off the thistledown and replacing it with dank cellars, slapped cheeks, and a badly stitched sack over the head.

ONE WORLD SYMPHONY Shostakovich, and the myth surrounding his career, is a lodestar for Sung Jin Hong's young band: the savage Scherzo from the Symphony No. 10, allegedly a musical portrait of Stalin, leads off "Superheroes and Supervillains," a concert that continues with Michael Daugherty's "Metropolis Symphony" and excerpts from John Williams's score for the film "Superman".

By seeing this extraordinary performer through the eyes of these geniuses Sargent made the portrait of performing artists off stage socially acceptable thus paving the way for Cecil Beaton, Richard Avedon, Andy Warhol and of course the Internet.

This month a silk-screened Warhol self-portrait touched off a bidding war at Christie's before selling for $38.4 million, well above its high estimate of $30 million.

Ahmed told Tsemel that Hassan had proclaimed he was ready to die, to join the so-called martyrs whose tattered portraits peel off the walls of many Palestinian buildings.