Sentence examples for tough portrait from inspiring English sources

With her tough portrait of a female planter, Santiago speculates, charitably but unromantically, about those who didn't speak.

In the 10-page summary provided Monday, the prosecution drew a tough portrait of Mr. Bashir's actions, saying it had tracked all the known attacks from 2003 to 2008 and shown the government's genocidal strategy to attack civilian towns and villages.

Sarah Hall has won the 2006/7 John Llewellyn Rhys prize, which celebrates the best fiction, non-fiction, poetry and drama from the UK and the Commonwealth, with her third novel, The Carhullan Army, a tough portrait of life in a near-future Britain after the oil runs out.

Schutt's third novel is intimate and tough, a portrait of a doomed marriage that forgoes melodrama for quiet truth.

Newly free, struggling to find his way, dependent on the (somewhat tenuous) kindness of strangers, he is both sympathetic and tough; his portrait has a complexity that few authors could achieve.

A tough-minded portrait of the emotional and sexual torments facing two Filipino-American boys in a Roman Catholic school, the play was directed by Loy Arcenas, who is best known as an award-winning set designer.

Clint Eastwood's "American Sniper," a tough-minded portrait of Chris Kyle, the real-life U.S. Navy SEAL who became the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history (160 confirmed kills over four tours in Iraq), received six Oscar nominations Thursday, including nods for picture, actor Bradley Cooper and screenwriter Jason Hall.

"Portraits are tough, especially drawing portraits of famous, recognizable people!

"Sweat" 's transfer to Studio 54 — it is Nottage's Broadway début — may make it the first theatrical landmark of the Trump era: a tough yet empathetic portrait of the America that came undone.

It deserves another chance: a tough-minded dual portrait of a hard-up Guyanese cockfighter and his alcoholic 75-year-old mother, it's a study in severely compromised unconditional love that works hard for its unsentimental emotional rewards.

More complex than it first seems, this study of brotherly attachment and fraternal psychology broadens into a tough-minded generational portrait that subtly addresses many aspects of contemporary Israeli life, from the role of the military to the fault lines of class and gender and the recent economic protests.