Sentence examples for wrote a portrait from inspiring English sources

In the end I wrote a portrait, not a clean sanitised equation on a page.

In 1983, Estes' daughter Pam wrote a portrait of her father, Billie Sol: King of Texas Wheeler-Dealers.

In 1947 Fleming wrote a portrait of his adopted home in Horizon magazine, influential enough to fuel a postwar tourist boomlet among well-heeled Britons and Americans.

Back in the sixth century AD, the Roman historian Procopius wrote a portrait of the empress Theodora that chronicled, in scabrous detail, her early life as an actress and whore: a career which had featured floor-shows so imaginative that classicists have generally preferred to follow the example of Gibbon, and leave the precise details "veiled in the obscurity of a learned language".

I learned that lesson when I wrote a portrait of my best friend from college days, a man I loved and admired although we were about as similar as Oscar and Felix.

(N. B.: During 1933, the year Tanizaki wrote A Portrait of Shunkin, he also published In Praise of Shadows, an essay on esthetics that stressed the powers of darkness in literature).

My plan was to write a portrait of Phil Jackson after basketball: to capture the full mundanity of his post-N.B.A. existence.

She's written a portrait of Powell that is as revealing as it can be and remain flattering, and as flattering as it can be and remain revealing.

Mr. Pierre-Pierre and his colleagues at The Times have written a portrait of one street in Port-au-Prince and its survivors, for example, and another article about the challenges faced by a team of doctors, including some Haitian-Americans, from New York.

Jamaica Kincaid was born and grew up in Antigua, and wrote a fierce portrait of the island, "A Small Place".

Joe had embedded himself with MacDonald's defense team, and then turned around and wrote a devastating portrait of the defendant — which concluded, as did the jury, that MacDonald was guilty.