Sentence examples for portrait out of from inspiring English sources

The singers work hard, and some of them are outstanding; as Leon Klinghoffer, Jonathan Summers conjures a compelling portrait out of what musically is relatively little, and Catherine Wyn-Rogers as his wife, Marilyn, sings her final aria of rage turning to despair with impressive intensity.

It shifted the ability to record one's portrait out of the hands of only the artisan and eventually into the smartphone of the everyman.

Hassel Smith's 1944 "Self-Portrait," torn out of a spiral drawing pad, emanates restless energy.

But interviews in recent days and hundreds of pages of documents in the case offer a portrait of an isolated, out-of-control unit that operated in Kandahar Province in southern Afghanistan with limited supervision and little oversight from senior commanders.

Weston's first book distinguished itself by applying a novelistic sensibility to a world of which the author had a thorough knowledge: a kind of non-fiction bildungsroman, it made a self-portrait out of a documentarist's materials, rather as Anna Funder did in Stasiland.

Indeed, the most magnificent works are portraits out of doors, where the landscape becomes part of the whole.

Unlike Marc Quinn, who fashioned three-dimensional self-portraits out of his own blood, Anzeri has not chosen to use human materials.

[Free, R.S.V.P. required.] Thomas Witte, who cuts beautifully intricate portraits out of paper, explains how he does it at Mid-Manhattan library.

A self-described "master paper portrait cutter," he has the ability to trim facial portraits out of frail paper within minutes, compelling some riders to willingly miss their trains.

"They could be making portraits out of marshmallows for all we know," said Ms. Apple, an assistant editor at the Chicago Reader, a free weekly newspaper that is a sponsor for the event.

There was the beauty parlor owner who won a whistling championship; the woman who picked roses every day and delivered them to her local post office; the artist who made portraits out of clothes-dryer lint.