Sentence examples for stinging portrait from inspiring English sources

For most of this fascinating book, Wrong is more objective, offering a stinging portrait of the country's despair under Mobutu while reviewing its complex history.

In reinventing Hedda, Ms. Burton uses her natural, radiant air of ordinariness to etch a stinging portrait of a woman who fears, more than anything else, being ordinary.

Love is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998) This caustic, stinging biopic, set in "swinging sixties" London, casts a harsh, unsympathetic light on Francis Bacon Derek Jacobii), the British painter renowned for his raw, almost grotesque imagery.

"With the stinging nettles!

Stinging and tickling.

Stinging shot.

No stinging.

Consider stinging nettles.

Consider any stinging feelings.

Ted - the portrait in Don's attic, who'd already been stung by this way of thinking - had a go: "I know you're attached to California.

That stung".