Sentence examples for vicious portrait from inspiring English sources

Characteristically, he went on to write a much more vicious portrait of Skeffington-Lodge, again en travesti, in a lightly fictionalised account of the libel case, The Action.

It deals with the tragedy of a Han dynasty court lady, Wang Zhojun, who, through the intrigue of a vicious portrait painter, was picked by mistake to be sent away to Central Asia as a chieftain's consort.

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Unpleasantness abounds in The Riot Club, a gruesome feast of deplorability and a vicious, unbridled portrait of privilege.

Oliver considers this characterisation to be one of Gibbons's "most enjoyable and vicious" satirical portraits.

Inside, the dark space is decorated with British fetishism: couches are crisscrossed by the Union Jack and a portrait of Sid Vicious is inked on a mirror.

Here was new art for a new age, from Gavin Turk's self-portrait as Sid Vicious to Tracey Emin's tent.

Loach's films are often either a call to arms (a reminder of the rotten, vicious circumstances many people face) or portraits of specific political movements.

Before it turns lighter and fizzier, "The Angels Sharee" offers a pungently realistic portrait of hopelessness and frustration, which explode in vicious street fighting and petty crime.

Here are classicising and admiring – but maybe never quite loving – portraits of his first wife Olga, juxtaposed with vicious images of her as some demonic beast of rage.

The story of a man who remains eternally young while his portrait ages provided the framework for Wilde's whimsical but vicious depiction of the fin de siècle.