Sentence examples for rough portrait from inspiring English sources

But there are plenty of exceptions already, and taken together they form a rough portrait of what we value and what we don't.

After John Schlesinger's rough portrait of Times Square hustlers, "Midnight Cowboy," won the 1969 prize -- the year before it had been "Oliver!" -- the academy seemed to become less arthritic, less hidebound and more unpredictable, reflecting, perhaps, the cultural changes occurring in the country.

"Sketch of Sylvia," a smaller, rougher portrait of the same girl, was lent by a different island family.

The statistics released yesterday made it possible to sketch a rough demographic portrait of last year's cultural visitors.

Its side-view on US police brutality still feels harshly of the moment, but NWA deserved a rougher, riskier portrait.

His hands are rough; blistered portraits of a life which for almost two decades has been spent working on this unforgiving terrain.

Using videos she shot of Basquiat (who died from a drug overdose in 1988) as her creative jumping-off point, Ms. Davis creates a vivid if somewhat rough-edged portrait of an artist who was also a friend.

Amy Berg's Janis: Little Girl Blue was a rough and ready portrait of the singer Janis Joplin, whose raucous crazy-mama persona concealed a profoundly wounded soul; it's celebratory and heartbreaking in equal measure.

But in the 10 days since the shootings, with three people in custody and three others the subject of an intense search stretching down the East Coast to Virginia, a rough and disturbing portrait is taking shape of the mixed band of men and boys, of immigrant felons and local teenagers, who, whatever their real gang affiliations, certainly considered themselves a crew of their own.

Even once-challenging works — like the rough-hewn, cartoonish portrait in garish colors of a bearded man wearing a big coat, by the German Expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner — now seem more sensuously beautiful than disruptive.

On the front was a rough, hand-drawn illustrated portrait of Amma.