Sentence examples for universal portrait from inspiring English sources
The phrase "universal portrait" is correct and can be used in written English. It refers to a portrait or image that represents something in a wide, all-encompassing manner. Example: The artist's painting of a mother and child was praised for capturing the universal portrait of motherhood and the bond between a parent and their child.
This "mesmerising and universal portrait of the human condition", the debut of a 50-ish psychologist from Northumbria University, "has only recently come to light", hiding fully-formed in a desk drawer until Deary found the courage to retrieve it, triggering a multi-publisher bidding war.
The film is less an autobiography, and more of a deeply personal, yet widely universal portrait, utilising Mills's background as a graphic designer and video director to create a film that manages to say nothing, and everything at the same time.
Journalist David Thorpe enlists the help of experts (linguists, acting coaches), friends (family members, willing celebrities) and strangers in an exploration of his personal anxiety about 'sounding gay.' What begins as an intimate dive into one man's social hangup morphs into a strikingly universal portrait of the cultural baggage and identity crises wrapped up in wanting a different voice.
But the disparate elements here merge into a universal family portrait with an irresistible emotional pull.
It's geographically grounded, chimneys belching in the background, yet it's also universal: a portrait of a groovy, hungry youngster, looking west.
It amounts to a universal self-portrait (one sign fits all) while paradoxically denying the possibility of summing oneself up in an image or a word.
The parents' disappointment in Ryo and his awareness of their mortality make "Still Walking" a universal, deeply felt portrait of middle-class family life and its discontents, comparable to Yasujiro Ozu's 1953 masterpiece, "Tokyo Story".
How much reassurance this portrait of universal destruction gives is debatable.
He shot a few vignettes — a history of the universal language Esperanto, a portrait of an American exile in Havana — that each said something about idealism in an anti-utopian age.
Another bought a work by Jitish Kallat, "Universal Recipient 1," a large portrait of a security guard, for $111,467.
There can be little more instructive as well as delightful reading this summer than Richard Davenport-Hines's Universal Man (William Collins), his multifaceted portrait of John Maynard Keynes.
