Sentence examples for somber portrait from inspiring English sources

Is it a somber portrait of a once high-profile life that is falling apart?

Though she relies on many sources, Wilkerson ignores Nicholas Lemann's classic 1991 account of the black migration to Chicago, "The Promised Land," which paints a somber portrait of its impact upon the migrants and their progeny.

The choreographic tone gradually darkens until one realizes that this is not just a ballet about a party but a somber portrait of a man on the brink of madness.

A number of Larkin's better-known poems create a somber portrait of a postwar England of diminished expectations, urban sprawl and deadening routine — a "rented world" of "cheap suits, red kitchen-ware, sharp shoes, iced lollies,/Electric mixers, toasters, washers, driers —/A cut-price crowd, urban yet simple, dwelling/Where only salesmen and relations come".

Helene Abelen, a modern Weimar woman, with slicked-back short hair, wearing a man's tie and pants, smoking a cigarette and jokingly sneering at the camera, is the same person Sander posed with her daughter, seated on the floor in the same room, in a somber portrait of a mother and child.

Each of Bell's images combines a somber portrait of a convict in uniform with a handwritten note giving warning, advice, guidance and inspirational words to their younger selves.

But this counts as a happy ending in the author's gallery of somber portraits.

The museum also houses his paintings of the regents and regentesses of St. Elizabeth's Hospital — somber portraits that Hals did far later in his career.

That may be a tall order for a place where somber portraits of kings and weeping Virgins hang in heavy, gilt frames.

In an early gallery here are two somber portraits of Spain's Habsburg kings: the expansionist Philip II, painted by Titian in stern semiprofile, and his grandson Philip IV, depicted by Diego Velázquez with his trademark handlebar mustache.

Rembrandt van Rijn and Edgar Degas don't make for the most obvious pairing in art: the 17th-century Dutch painter is more associated with dark, somber portraits and landscapes, while the French Impressionist is best-known for his romantic pastel-hued scenes from ballet.