Sentence examples for towering portrait from inspiring English sources

Sitting in traditional white robes around a long conference room table under a towering portrait of a young Muammar el-Qaddafi, all talked about their desire to reconcile the warring factions of the country, without mentioning any substantive disagreements.

Out front, a towering portrait of Optimus Prime and Megatron in mid-battle hung over the attraction's main entrance on the movie theme park's lower lot.

It is in fact a towering portrait of Damien Hirst, one-time hell-raising leader of the Young British Artists group, now a sober, middle-aged, country-dwelling millionaire.

Images of Peyton Manning are everywhere in Indianapolis — in the mall and at the airport, in a towering portrait on the side of the Colts' downtown stadium, and on the walls inside where the ticket holders party.

In Rajin, a town of dirt roads and occasional blackouts, the guides stuck to the program, first taking their guests to a towering portrait of North Korea's founder, Kim Il-sung, for photographs and then ushering them into a theater to watch children perform patriotic numbers.

But in the interview shortly before this year's prizes were formally presented -- as they traditionally are on Dec. 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death -- Mr. Sohlman sat in a conference room adorned not just with a towering portrait of Nobel, but also with a modest likeness of his grandfather Ragnar, who died in 1948.

Another of its recent acquisitions dwarfed the sum paid for the Liotard painting: along with the Louvre in Paris, the museum bought a pair of towering portraits by Rembrandt depicting a young couple, Marten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit, for €160m (£134m).

The towering, smirking portrait on 34th Street was painted over long ago.

Overlooking the edges of the crowd in the Plaza of the Revolution was the huge statue of the 19th-century nationalist leader José Martí and a towering wrought-iron portrait of Mr. Castro's own comrade in arms, Che Guevara.

It is a a visionary, rivetingly strange film centring on Day-Lewis's towering, intensely physical portrait of a haunted and haunting man who strikes it rich in California in the early 1900s.

For example, when Melania Trump used a Trump Foundation check to purchase the towering (forgive the pun) portrait of her husband, the painting wasn't donated to a charity but apparently hung in the boardroom of one of her husband's golf clubs.