portrait
Example Sentences
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They posted appeals for information along with portraits of the people, mostly teenage, they hoped would be found alive.
He stresses that Columbus was “no saint” and concedes that his portrait of the man can seem “unsympathetic.”
He left behind a seminal 37-volume encyclopedia, the “Natural History,” and the surviving letters of his nephew paint a colorful portrait of a workaholic who rarely slept.
Julia “Butterfly” Hill — whose ethereal, barefoot portraits high in the redwood canopy became a symbol of the Redwood Summer — spent two years living in a thousand-year-old tree, named Luna, to keep it from being felled.
From Los Angeles Times
David deployed some of the same reportage techniques in his private portrait commissions, which constitute half the exhibition.
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