portrait
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At a portrait of Yevgeni Postel, a 25-year-old student, his mother laid a bouquet of flowers and broke down sobbing.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
Some argue that the Census Bureau data paints an overly dire portrait of elder poverty.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
“Primetime” presents itself as a story about Hansen’s callous quest for ratings and notoriety at the expense of his tact, but the portrait is unfinished.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
Adam Harris Levine followed many twists and turns to figure out his unknown portrait sitter’s story.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
She turned away from the portrait, picked up her mourning cap, and pinned it back on her head.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
At the Nova site, mourners gathered in front of portraits both of festival-goers and security forces who died on October 7.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
"These are our heroes; the greatest children of Israel," said one police officer as he looked at portraits of his fallen colleagues.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
His first real break came when his peer and podcast co-host Johnson matched the painting’s partial signature to one scrawled on a pair of 1781 portraits in the Netherlands’ Museum de Waag.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
The lack of recognition, Feldman argues, reverberates through Caland’s heavily impastoed portraits of Moses and her enigmatic late abstractions such as the rectilinear paintings in the “Silent Letter Series.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
A few strange, antique portraits of the men and women of other days decorated the stained walls; a cupboard with glass doors contained some books and an ancient set of china.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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