Sentence examples for the portrait given from inspiring English sources

The Portrait, given its UK premiere by Opera North, is gripping, intelligent drama with fine individual moments.

This is not the portrait given by Republican border governors, including Rick Perry of Texas, a presidential candidate who recently said that "it is not safe on that border".

Duncan Hamilton's Immortal (Century, £20) is the umpteenth but undoubtedly the most satisfying life of George Best, "approved" by his family and gentler than the portrait given by Gordon Burn seven years ago in the bleak Best and Edwards but more rounded (and better written) than those authorised during the player's lifetime.

For years after the fire, he displayed the portrait given to him by the Apollo 1 crew in the front hallway of his own home.

But the portrait gives a flatteringly deceptive impression of a man as much at ease in polite and leisured interiors as he is with nature.

The portrait gave Doria license to pose wearing nothing but a cloak draped low around his loins, exposing not just his muscular arms, manly chest, and stalwart belly but, just visible above the draping folds of cloth, a quarter-inch of penis.

He created an 'I-Wow.' " And ultimately, Mr. Kornbluth said, the experience of thinking about the portraits gave him a greater appreciation of and curiosity about his Jewishness.

In all cases, the flinty detail of the portraits gives them the deliberate look of an era when a photograph required more money and time than in the iPhone age.

It was the first portrait given to the National Portrait Gallery, in 1856, the year the gallery was founded.

Presumably commissioned to be an iconic representation of the ruler as a great warrior and an enlightened scholar, the official portrait gives the powerful sitter the face of an apish buffoon.

The man in this enigmatic, elegiac portrait, given pride of place by the gallery, is finally unknowable.