Sentence examples for sad portrait from inspiring English sources

July's film, "The Future," is her second feature as a director, and it's a funny, sad portrait of a couple at a crossroads.

The letters give a beautiful, funny, sad portrait of the kind of mind and wit we need in film and literature now.

Mr. Bates's Gaev is a pitch-perfect, deeply sad portrait of habitual passivity masking panic, and Ms. Cartlidge's Varya is a taut bowstring of frustrated anticipation.

One is a goofy but sad portrait of Michael Jackson looking lost in a winter wonderland that may be a snow dome.

He dislikes Bret Harte, whom he dismisses as "always bright but never brilliant"; offers a sad portrait of an aged and infirm Harriet Beecher Stowe; and lavishly praises his friend William Dean Howells.

The drama presents a trenchant but painfully sad portrait of two former college friends (Jack Nicholson and Garfunkel) as they struggle in various relationships from the 1940s through the sexual revolution of the '60s.

That Harvey should put so much warmth into these sad portraits is no surprise, since life studies of bruised hearts are what he does best.

Volleyed with sad portraits and other scenes of working-class Americana, Richardson consistently drapes his images in warm golden light.

There's little in it for non-acolytes, which I wouldn't say about the delightful Mistaken for Strangers (Dogwoof, 15), a goofy-sad portrait of life on the road with glum-rock favourites the National, seen through the eyes of frontman Matt Berninger's self-confessed loser of a younger brother, Tom.

The picks are William Jewell's teasing, stylish feature-in-waiting Man in Fear, which conjures a fatalistic universe around paranoiac Luke Treadaway and no-nonsense copper Tim Healy and Matthew Holnesss's A Gun for George, a tremendously assured, funny-sad portrait of a pulp writer in decline, which envelops great lines in retro detail worthy of Holness's beloved Garth Marenghi.

No, Wuornos's story is unique and through Nick Bloomfield's filmmaking (2002's Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer is the follow-up to his 1992 documentary, Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer, also on Netflix), a sadder portrait emerges, one that makes you feel pity on the abused former prostitute.