"portrait" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Ms. Hurston, who died poor and forgotten in 1960 at the age of 57, was once celebrated for her unflinching written portraits of black America.
- But her portrait of Arthur Fiedler is as unflinching as a Holbein or Whistler portrait.
- But as Davis's wonderfully strange story of a rancher descending into violent rage unfolds, so does an unflinching portrait of a way of life indebted to nature.
- - with its beautiful but unflinching portrait of Harold Rosenberg as a needy, aging man - to remind him.
- The film received mixed reviews 54% of reviews on rottentomatoes.com being positive, the consensus being, "a glossy yet unflinching portrait of violent, hedonistic teenagers.
- And "Cold Parade," probably the most complex song on the album, is an unflinching but essentially sympathetic portrait of a lonely man with too much time on his hands.
- Canadian National Film Board calls the documentary "an unflinching portrait with neither voyeurism nor false sympathy acknowledging those society prefers to ignore".
- Yet it's worth noting that while "Citizen Kane" is an unflinching portrait of a monstrous man's will to power, "Alexander" soft-pedals a far more terrible monster.
- When the Pulitzer Prize jury awarded the book in 2009, it called the prose "agile" and the book an "unflinching portrait".
- Beginning with Vespasian, represented in a craggy, unflinching portrait from the second half of the first century, realism re-emerges as a favored style among the aristocracy.
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