Sentence examples for restrained portrait from inspiring English sources

Despite his loyalty to Baldwin, Fulcher remained quite objective and provided a restrained portrait of the Byzantine Empire.

I admired Mr. Ecceleston's restrained portrait of a man straitjacketed by his political role and his mindless adherence to its rules.

You'll even find a restrained portrait of himself without makeup on display, a bold move for any queen.

A towering look at a towering man, Spielberg's somber, restrained portrait of our 16th president doesn't have the emotional heft of, say, "Schindler's List," but it reveals a filmmaker confident in his one-of-a-kind gifts.

"Loving" Jeff Nichols' restrained portrait of an interracial couple fighting a landmark civil rights case to make their marriage legal earned admiring reviews at Cannes.

To one side of this huge canvas is a restrained self-portrait in profile of the artist in black, a single brush in hand, dated to 1565-66.

When I saw the film I felt thankful to both actresses, and particularly to Judi Dench, not only for having made such a wonderfully restrained and understanding portrait of Iris when she was ill, but for creating a work of art -- one that I could watch and admire; be deeply touched by, too -- but one in which my own private emotions were not in the least involved.

After the restrained quietude of "Portraits 1-3," Mr. Charon's "Place Between Places" felt almost exaggeratedly theatrical.

Indeed, the interiors are a portrait in restrained clutter: artful groupings of tables and stools, sofas and chairs, pillows, vases and bowls.

What follows is an admirably restrained and fair-minded portrait of a town, county and nation under psychological siege in an ideological war.

Ms. Kerr, who brought a memorably antic intensity to Christopher Durang's "Laughing Wild," provides a more restrained but equally effective portrait here, etched in sardonic mellowness.