Sentence examples for portrait straight from inspiring English sources

A thank-you note fashioned by the couple sports two photographs: a wedding portrait straight out of Martha Stewart and, on the flip side, a snap of Ms. Schreibman and Mr. Fagan -- she still in her veil, hair still up and he in his tuxedo shirt, though both are wearing jeans -- at Home Depot, with Ms. Schreibman cradling a Delta faucet.

A world in black-and-white buzzing with frequencies, humming an ambient portrait straight into the brain.

This is a prototypical portrait — a straight up shot with good separation from the background.

A male novelist can make a woman; a contemporary novelist can make a figure from the past; an Irish novelist can make a German; a novelist can create a self-portrait; a straight novelist can make a homosexual; an African-American novelist can make a white American.

Thirty years ago, Richter painted 48 black-and-white portrait heads copied straight from an old German encyclopedia.

"Dad's really good fun to take pictures of, because he likes to make it interesting for himself, he doesn't just want to do a straight portrait.

It's a straight portrait of the company during a busy period, replete with characters who could have been working for Mike Baldwin.

The Carrollesque title The Ugly Duchess is much better than the National Gallery's bland choice, An Old Woman, for this is an exercise in the surreal, not a straight portrait.

Maybe they drew a straight portrait, but there would be dollar signs on the CEO's tie or devil horns or something like that.

As well as straight portraits, he painted in Suffolk a number of delightful spontaneous groups of small figures in landscapes closely related to conversation pieces.

Straight portraits include those of a drag queen with a whitened face and exaggerated eyebrows and a young boy mutilated by hereditary syphilis.