What begins as a twisted riff on "Rebecca," with Alma trapped inside a house with a madman, evolves into a tender portrait of a marriage between two people who understand how to nurture each other.
A tender portrait of a family friend, a woman affectionately known as Auntie and trusting enough to pose for a larger-than-lifesize painting that exposes every sag and crease, has won the £25,000 BP Portrait prize for the 26-year-old American artist Aleah Chapin.
The legacy of their marriage may not have been a child, but they did leave a correspondence: a literary treasure, and a tender, touching portrait of a loving marriage in the theatre, with all the joys and imperfections and unfathomable truths inherent in both.
(A tender portrait of a seven-year-old boy severely burned by a government bomb won a prize at this year's World Press Photo Awards).
It's a tender portrait of a young mother giving away her baby, in a lyric that reads like a kitchen-sink drama: "Wrap her up in the News of the World/ Dump her on a doorstep, girl".
Alsopp isn't a bad lyricist - his depiction of "a happy-clappy trustafarian" on Disco Friends resists the temptation to sneer at its subject, opting instead to paint a tender, melancholy portrait of a life at a loose end - but, without the currency of Starz in Their Eyes, a lot of Overtones seems a bit aimless and cliched.
You don't feel that artifactual quality in more conventionally pictorial images like Aaron Siskind's classically austere picture of industrial silos or a tender portrait of a man in clown makeup by Umbo.
"A tender, compelling portrait of a woman who goes too far for love--a roller coaster of emotions you won't soon forget!" You know.
Adapted by Mr. Osborn from a novel by Lawrence Edward Watkin, "On Borrowed Time" thoughtfully contemplates the necessity of death while providing a tender portrait of an old man's abiding love for his grandson.
Matisse was an exquisitely sensitive collector who also owned an incredibly tender, homoerotic portrait of a young Tahitian with a white flower in his hair by Gauguin.
Her photos are far from serving the myth of the too obvious sex symbol; accompanied by a moving text, they give a tender portrait of the fading star.
