"portrait" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- But the most gripping portraits are self-portraits, Artaud's features racked by disease, though his expression remains gentle, pitiable and lost.
- On view is a gripping, anonymous portrait of Edgar Allan Poe that prompted Poe to say on seeing it: "My life seems wasted.
- But hers is a gripping portrait, not least because it raises the specter - the anxiety of genetic influence - that haunts the imaginations of daughters everywhere.
- The author's most deeply felt novel yet, "Freedom" is both a gripping portrait of a dysfunctional family and a telling, wide-angled snapshot of our troubled times.
- So it's even more of a pleasure to report that he's come up with a gripping and suitably grimy portrait of how we live today - if, that is, we happen to live in New York City.
- Winner of numerous awards at this year's Berlin Film Festival, Asghar Farhadi's A Separation is a sophisticated, superbly acted and wholly gripping portrait of modern Iran.
- A result is a gripping portrait of a tragedy through the victims' eyes that is at once human, universal and touching, and also uniquely, terribly Russian.
- As such passages indicate, Mr. Darnton can write lucidly and straightforwardly about his subject, giving the reader a gripping portrait of the social, literary and political dynamics at work in prerevolutionary France.
- Derek Elley of the entertainment magazine Variety similarly found the film to be an achievement, particularly in how it played with genre conventions, calling the film a "stylized but gripping portrait of mob power play and lifestyles in 1930 Shanghai."
- Most striking of all are Hartley's gripping, near-devotional portraits of the American painter Albert Pinkham Ryder and the English poet John Donne.
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