Strohm's victory-from-the-jaws-of-defeat account is touching, but the real thrill is his portrait of Chaucer's London, one square mile of church bells pealing, neighbors gossiping, politicians conniving, severed heads rotting on spikes (quite near Chaucer's windows), and poetry rising out of all this.
Most thrilling, perhaps, is his portrait of the warhorse: Hast thou given the horse strength?
Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris uses masterfully-executed recreations seriously, this is one they teach you about in film school to give a rich, thrilling, and necessarily nuanced portrait of a uniquely American nightmare scenario.
The Velvet Underground's sinisterly thrilling, entirely unapologetic musical portraits of New York's gay, drug-taking demimonde must have seemed overwhelming to a British suburban kid in the late 60s.
This father was thrilled to have a portrait taken of his family because he was just as proud of them as I am of mine.
Although most mothers would be thrilled to receive portraits of their children as a holiday gift, few fathers dare to brave the tasks that such a project requires, like styling hair and coordinating clothing.
And Billy Crystal and Norm MacDonald may not be not be thrilled with the portraits I paint of our interactions.
The teacher Mr. Bégaudeau conjures before our eyes is so vibrant and thrilling, even heroic, that his portrait comes perilously close to stacking the deck.
But, in a fine production for Paines Plough, the play found an engaged audience who saw in it both thrilling theatrical mastery and a compelling portrait of our own world, recast in its own dystopian terms.
Except for Travis, a self-taught portrait artist who was thrilled at the prospect of getting his paintings out to a wider audience most others were reluctant.
