Sentence examples for telling portrait from inspiring English sources

As a telling portrait of the sober and hardworking rural dwellers of the Midwest, the painting has become one of the best-known icons of American art.

The Studio (1969) is a telling portrait of the motion-picture industry as seen through the eyes of the movie studio executives.

This body of work, beyond its personal interest, constitutes a clear and telling portrait of French intellectual life from the 1930s to the 1970s.

Finney's comments, coupled with a telling portrait by the newspaper's acclaimed photographer, the late Jane Bown, reveal both his appetite for life and his concern to make the right artistic choices.

Mr. Klebnikov, to show what this means, offers a brief but telling portrait of the lives of the new Russian elite, one almost worthy of Thorstein Veblen and "The Theory of the Leisure Class".

Not only is that a telling portrait of the lone furrow that Higuaín has had to plough within Sarri's system; it also offers a glimpse of the player's refreshed mentality.

He also creates telling portraits of the driven, inspired directors John Dexter and Joan Littlewood, whose incisive commitment he so admires.

In these pages (Ron Powers is credited as a collaborator) Mr. Kennedy draws some telling portraits of other politicians.

With the keen and expert eye of an excellent journalist, Waldman provides telling portraits of all the drama's major players, deftly exposing their foibles and their mutual manipulations.

The writer gives telling portraits of those who resist contamination: the dead child's innkeeper father, an honorable mayor, a priest who loves flowers and people alike.

Besides reworking the subjects of the commedia dell' arte, he offered vibrant oils of the Seine, the Thames and the Channel ports, and some telling portraits - his likeness of his friend, the actor Anthony Quinn, may be his masterpiece.