Sentence examples for searing portrait from inspiring English sources

A searing portrait of masculinity in crisis: The Wrestler with knob gags, basically.

It was even worse in the 1990s, when Chanteloup earned unwelcome fame as the location for the movie "La Haine" ("Hatred"), a searing portrait of life in a French ghetto.

One in three black men is likely to spend time in jail, and this is a searing portrait of the lives behind the statistics: constantly under threat from the police, courts and incarceration.

Watson's personal account of their quest is both uncompromisingly honest and extraordinarily exciting, a searing portrait of two young men taking on the Anglo-American scientific establishment and winning against the odds.

Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey's searing portrait of a bipolar housewife (Alice Ripley, in a Tony-winning tour de force) and her bewildered family, directed by Michael Greif, dared to ask audiences to feel their pain through a pulsing rock 'n' roll score.

It's a searing portrait of what drives this show business victim/veteran - she just has to be out there.

Co-directed by Uriel Sinai, a prizewinning photojournalist, the 60-minute homage includes searing portraits of women and men displaying their numbers almost as badges of honor.

Their relationship was tempestuous, but resulted in some of Bacon's most searing portraits, painted during Dyer's life and after his death in 1971 from a drink and drugs overdose.

Max van der Stoel, a career Dutch diplomat who used his appointment as the United Nations' official watchdog on Iraqi human rights abuses in the 1990s to paint searing portraits of Saddam Hussein's murderous government, died on April 23 at his home in The Hague.

These searing portraits - of both men and women - show the physical reality of a disease that most people never see.

Subtle, shimmering short fiction; sprawling family sagas; searing portraits of social trauma: 2016 had it all.