"portrait" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Almost as soon as he was interned he began sketching somber portraits of the Japanese-American families devastated by government policy.
- He showed them down the corridor, through a large chamber decked with ancient black velvet drapes and somber portraits of scowling, hawknosed men.
- A true romantic, Mother was attracted to the dark, somber portrait of the man with a mask.
- Mr. Riklis bought the somber portrait at Sotheby's in 1986 for paid nearly $2 million.
- She pointed to the somber, brooding portrait of Uncle Paul hanging behind her father's desk.
- He glanced at the huge somber portrait of Manfred Blackwood, my venerable ancestor.
- Throughout, Mr. Sokurov creates painstaking and gracefully somber portraits.
- Here he passed through a procession of outer offices and finally was admitted to a brightly lit reception hall lined with somber portraits in oils.
- Here, on the eve of World War II, Orozco created a somber but compelling portrait of humanity in both its benign and malevolent aspects.
- That may be a tall order for a place where somber portraits of kings and weeping Virgins hang in heavy, gilt frames.
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