Sentence examples for startling portrait from inspiring English sources

That startling portrait of a young woman staring straight at the camera, veiled in cigarette smoke?

Then there is the startling portrait of the artist Picasso in John A Scott's Picasso: A Shorter Life.

But the Coens' greatest gift to the Jews is the startling portrait of a sensitive playwright ground to mincemeat by the Hollywood machine.

An example is a startling portrait of James B. Conkling, then president of Columbia Records, at home with his family in Bronxville in 1955.

Some of the more disturbing photographs -- Cindy Sherman as a burn victim, Katy Grannan's startling portrait of a nude woman and her pet Husky -- decorate the den.

It's an angry, funny tale of illicit sex on the estates of Bradford, and a startling portrait of an England rarely seen on screen.

Ebullient and eager to show a sketchbook filled with startling portraits, he seems to have identity to spare.

He paints startling portraits of Raleigh and Miranda, in particular, and shines a flickering light on the iniquitous societies their greed and slaughter gave rise to.

Opie's parents bought her a starter camera when she was in fourth grade, after she did a book report on Lewis Hine, who took startling portraits of child laborers across America and of immigrants coming in through Ellis Island.

Click on our slide show for startling portraits of now-familiar faces.

The savvy, surprising selection includes — along with images by Man Ray, Andres Serrano, Walker Evans, Nancy Burson, and David Wojnarowicz — one of the earliest photos of the Shroud of Turin, Vik Muniz's three-panel rendering of "The Last Supper" in chocolate, and F. Holland Day's startling 1898 portrait of himself as the crucified Christ.