portrait

Example Sentences

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Zachs believes he may have met Burns – and was painting from memory as much as from the only available portrait.

From BBC

So self-effacing is Rembrandt, in fact, that some portraits, and this is one, seem to have come into being independent of human agency.

From The Wall Street Journal

German director Mascha Schilinski’s astonishing second feature could scarcely be more ambitious as it offers an impressionistic portrait of four young women who take turns residing in the same house over roughly 110 years.

From Los Angeles Times

The journalist James Agee’s merciless portraits of his subjects remind Mr. Frazier of “those old-time operations that were done on a kitchen table without anesthetic.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Strong’s portraits of the men he met are cleareyed and candid.

From The Wall Street Journal