"portrait" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The movie also offers a wry portrait of the 60's in Britain, which one character describes as "a country coming down from its trip and about to witness the biggest hangover the world's ever seen."
- It is most original when it advances on Betty Friedan in its wry, acute portrait of contemporary suburban women living dangerously, on the tightrope between boredom and self-destruction.
- Rueful hindsights abound - "If you look at history, you will see that I was not the first guy to do something really stupid over a girl" - and wry portraits too.
- There is a wry portrait of the pride of poets - vanity of poets would be more like it - at the White House meeting.
- Allmusic critic Ned Raggett called the song "reflective," stating that it provides "as wry but heartfelt a portrait of her position in the public eye as any."
- Chris Rock's new series, a memoir that he narrates, paints an affectionately wry portrait of a 13-year-old growing up in Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn.
- And just occasionally, this painter of the wry portrait or telling anecdote manages to convey something more.
- Jan Anderson gives a wry portrait of the Miss Reardon who drinks a little.
- That Adamson was probably the team's stronger artist can be gleaned from his wry portrait of Hill.
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