portrait
Example Sentences
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The intimate portrait of Colorado poet laureate Andrea Gibson, who faces a terminal diagnosis with a spirit of resilience, needed the boost.
From Los Angeles Times
If there’s a place where “Hamnet,” Zhao’s tender portrait of love and loss centered on the family of William Shakespeare, could pull off a best picture upset, it would be with this group.
From Los Angeles Times
His daughter Lu Lawrence told the King she wished her father could have been present to see his "magnificent" portrait.
From BBC
What emerges from “Tradecraft” is not just the portrait of a master storyteller, but of a man driven by a relentless search for narrative truth in all its guises.
Or to do a portrait of when they were still alive.
From Literature
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