Sentence examples for portrait portrays from inspiring English sources

"A portrait portrays a personality, a still depicts a world," Henry Waxman, a noted silent-film still photographer, wrote in 1926.

Gertha's granddaughter, speaking for the family, said the settlement meant a great deal to her entire family: "This portrait portrays the brave and determined nature of my grandmother.

His most popular religious portrait portrays Andersen styled like a cross between Jesus and the Virgin Mary, naked save for x-shaped nipple pasties and hands cupping large breasts.

It's a portrait portraying my love of wood.

(This was underscored in the ugliest of ways last week when Marilyn Davenport, a Tea Party activist, sent an e-mail containing an Obama "family portrait," portraying them as apes under the phrase, "Now you know why no birth certificate").

Alice's portraits portray a range of body types, something that she says her audience has had a positive reaction to.

In the 1983 "Study for a Self-Portrait," Will Barnett portrays himself in profile holding a paintbrush turned away from his sharp facial features.

At the altar, he placed three of his brother's artworks, including a self-portrait that portrays three identical faces forming one person.

In his self-portrait, Benton portrays himself as a peeping tom.

She is known for her self-portraits that portray her as ambiguously gendered.

Unlike most painters of dogs, Megargee specialized in purebred-dog portraits and portrayed many show champions from the first half of the 20th-century.