Sentence examples for straightforward portrait from inspiring English sources

Clinton offered a straightforward portrait of what has long been assumed to be a complicated marriage.

(I think that, for similar reasons, I find it easier to recognize a caricature than a straightforward portrait or a photograph).

Our era, however, has fantasy in spades: from Louise Bourgeois and her drawings in red ink and pencil on music manuscript paper to Jonathan Borofsky's wacky, dashed-off dreams, to Jim Nutt's otherwise straightforward portrait, but with several strange growths.

One of his most potent drawings is "The Babykiller (German Airman)," a straightforward portrait of a skinny, slouching, vacant-eyed Wehrmacht soldier in an oversize uniform, hands demurely guarding his crotch.

Ms. Levine rephotographed a photograph, Walker Evans's straightforward portrait of a Depression-era woman, using aquatint and photogravure techniques that make her print different from Evans's and allow her to sign her name to the work.

A substantial selection of his output has been brought together here, from a straightforward portrait painting he contributed to the 1997 AIM group show to some of the elaborate, image-packed cut-paper pieces he has done since.

Almost all are affectionate, more or less straightforward portraits made indoors and out.

Here and there, relatively straightforward portraits of stall holders and passers-by punctuate the creative iconoclasm.

Straightforward portraits are just as physical; even a toucan directly confronting the camera has a suggestive expression.

The same impulse may explain why her straightforward portraits of legislators also have an unexpected emotional pull.

This exhibition includes many straightforward portraits, but without the polemical urgency that animated Ms. Sleigh's odalisques and the A.I.R. group portrait, they are less interesting.