"portrait" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- She offers an admiring portrait of Mr. Levine as well, but she acknowledges a few foibles, including his disinclination to make tough decisions, a tendency not to tell singers what he really thinks (leaving it to Mr. Volpe to deliver the bad news) and a windy evasiveness in interviews.
- The leftist New Left Review praised the book as a 'robust celebration of Jacksonianism as it historically was ... an admiring portrait of a tough, xenophobic folk community, ruthless to outsiders or deserters, rigid in its codes of honour and violence'.
- In addition to some admiring portraits of South Korean economic and political progress, NBC has broadcast reports prepared by its news and sports divisions on Korean sweatshops, squatters forced from their homes as Seoul prepared for the Olympics, urban poor, prostitutes, and adoption of Korean children by foreigners.
- "Wrestling With Angels" is best approached as an admiring portrait of a likable, creative powerhouse at midcareer.
- The Joyous Season (1934) is an admiring portrait of a strong-willed nun who has devoted her life to her faith.
- An admiring portrait of the 35th president.
- Thus from the opening moment the movie slyly throws little darts at what emerges generally as an admiring portrait.
- It follows Steven Silver's equally admiring portrait, "The Last Just Man," shown two years ago in the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival.
- An admiring portrait.
- Includes an admiring portrait of McIntosh's generalship by one who served under him.
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