Sentence examples for true likeness from inspiring English sources

(Earlier portraits of royalty, on seals and coins, made no attempt at true likeness).

Once our true likeness has been reduced to megapixels, we can improve it on the computer.

Its fortunes as a true likeness of the Bard have been mixed ever since.

"Your daughter has not signed her name, and the counter-signature on the back of the photograph says 'I certify that this is a true likeness of' but does not say who it is a true likeness of".

It is always the biographer's fantasy to have forged, in the crucible of life-writing, the only true likeness.

And, in Wadsworth's experience, clients held it more important to be pictured as sober, God-fearing men and women than they did to be offered a true likeness.

They are shades found everywhere on the African continent, but the people of Sudan in particular have not always been photographed with a sensitivity that captures their true likenesses.

Many of the photographs I found were colored by hand, as color film was only the domain of experimentalists until 1930s (thanks, Kodachrome!) Painting on black and white prints was an art in and of itself, and many of the colorized photos exhibit true talent which preserved for us the truer likeness of the people many a hundred years ago thought were vanishing.

After looking at his own lifelike image, believed at the time to have been his only true-likeness, Buddha was pleased and "imbued the image with his spiritual essence", or "enlivened and consecrated" the image, naming it "Candasara".

There is one genuine likeness.

True, the likeness was not recent, but you'd think he was offering her a daguerrotype.