Sentence examples for surprising portrait from inspiring English sources

What a surprising portrait of modesty in a church that had lost touch with it.

Delany is voluble and shockingly self-revealing; his self-deprecating and self-aggrandizing portrayal of himself is also a surprising portrait of the city and of his times.

What emerges from dozens of interviews on three campuses in the New York area is a complex and sometimes surprising portrait of students who are rethinking their views of the military -- or for the first time thinking seriously about the role of the military in American life.

Along the way he provides numerous surprising portraits, including that of a decent but apparently gullible Harvard scientist, Gary Huber, who discovers, after a decade of industry-financed research, that he had been ruthlessly manipulated by industry lawyers whom he viewed as friends -- in some instances performing experiments that the industry had already secretly performed.

They are a testament to the merits of sustained collaboration between the photographer and his subject, but the most surprising portraits are the ones that catch Waits relaxed or off-guard, whether hunched over a typewriter or engrossed in a bound newspaper archive.

There one finds Mr. Richter's surprising painted portrait of the art-making team Gilbert and George, evidently based on a multiply exposed photograph; blurry, Richter-like photographs by his disciple Thomas Ruff; and a dot painting simulating newspaper print made in 1965 by Mr. Richter's German archrival, Sigmar Polke.

The designers include the video magician John Jesurun, who splices gorgeously ruined industrial landscapes with intimate and surprising rehearsal portraits.

A fascinating snapshot of Rome a century before the Baroque architects got their hands on it, this two-fer is also a surprising self-portrait of the artist.

The Surprising Way Portraits Of Powerful Women Change The Mindsets Of Girls.

The story concerns power and the price that is paid for power, and is a surprising and intimate portrait of an extraordinary and complex woman".

"The Perfect Human V1," (with a strikethrough in the title), a duet choreograped and performed by Marianne Kim and Will Bond in response to Jorgen Leth's film "The Perfect Human," offered a more surprising dance-theater portrait.