"portrait" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Jean-Luc Picard strolled happily through the antechamber into the main building, observing the white, wooden furniture with gilt edges, overindulgent mirrors, bejeweled boxes, and full-length portraits framed by velvet curtains.
- Louis XVI presented Deane with a portrait framed with diamonds and both Vergennes and Franklin wrote letters commending Deane.
- Most of the 110 works are photographs, but in some cases - a 1987 portrait of Andy Warhol, for example, funereally framed in the shape of a cross - the photographs are bit players in a more complex, sculptural installation.
- Also of influence to Bon was Nordic art, as demonstrated in his female portraits framed by plant like motifs, a device taken up by his pupil Robert Tournières.
- Of all these little incidents, Dot was the amused and open-eyed spectatress from her chair in the cart; and as she sat there, looking on - a charming little portrait framed to admiration by the tilt - there was no lack of nudgings and glancings and whisperings and envyings among the younger men.
- Her hair was up in a swirling blonde twist; her face was a radiant portrait framed by dangling diamond earrings that Agnes had loaned her.
- "Scream" (1994/2004), among the more successful pieces, consists of a warped, red-painted plank linked with a six-inch dog chain to a double portrait framed in heavy steel of the artist screaming.
- I have had the portraits framed for a long time, waiting till my aunt gets everything ready for hanging them up in the parlor.
- Definitive series included a natural-color portrait framed in silver in 1964, a portrait of Sheik Sabah in 1969, and a 32-stamp series in 1977 depicting popular games.
- In a tiny oval portrait framed by a wreath of flowers embossed into the surrounding paper, a man with slightly widened eyes points a gun at the viewer for no apparent reason - one instance where there is no label and you wish there were.
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