Sentence examples for understated portrait from inspiring English sources

Ms. Guey's Kerou, the most developed character, is a carefully understated portrait of youthful determination and stoic suffering.

Nelson Madrigal established himself as one of the company's best technicians in his understated portrait of the dancing master on both nights.

Her latest, The Amateur Marriage, a typically understated portrait of an mismatched couple who married impulsively during the Second World War, is published this week.

Ms. Morozova gives a subtle, understated portrait of a betrayed wife sorrowfully making the best of an excruciating situation, as she waits for the relationship to run its course.

"Random Family," a mesmerizing, beautifully understated portrait of Cesar and an exponentially increasing group of girlfriends, babies and other relatives, is packed to the rafters with comparably staggering details.

Last seen in New York in an exquisitely understated portrait of one of the cryptic adulterers in Harold Pinter's "Betrayal," Mr. Schreiber here shifts into a more flamboyant mode.

This is readily apparent in his relatively understated portraits, especially that of his daughter, Eva; the fabric of her dress and that of the tablecloth are superbly re-created.

Indeed, our foreknowledge of Turing's fate elevates the piece from an understated biographical portrait into a compelling modern tragedy.

Mr. MacIvor's play, which is about a teenage girl -- Roberta, hence Bob -- hitchhiking to the beach, away from what turn out to be some gruesome experiences at home in Sydney, provides an understated, convincing portrait of ordinary girlhood.

The story he wrote about his trip with Marshall, "A Meeting in Atlanta," is one of my personal favorites an understated, illuminating portrait of the thoughtfulness and grace of the activists and attorneys at the N.A.A.C.P. On one level, the story is about what its title suggests: a committee meeting in which N.A.A.C.P. delegates from different states give one another updates on desegregation.

Mostly, they are fairly comic - George Bush patting his dog, for ages, in the television series, was a marvellously understated, impressionistic portrait of a complete simpleton; the Blairs, with Carole Caplin, frolicking around a pool, misted in vaguely nauseating sexual frisson, like English people trying to be in an Updike novel, but finding themselves too English.