portrait
Example Sentences
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She uses motifs to emphasize the dialectic of continuity and change, such as the portrait that acts as an unchanging backdrop to family meals even as other once-priceless objects are sold off.
It is as iconic as portraits of Napoleon when I was a kid: He’d been dead more than 100 years and wasn’t even an American, and we all knew who he was.
Drawing on this vast resource, the author crafts an intimate family portrait, spanning almost half a century to the brink of the Civil War.
The portrait is appealing, but the author too often relies on ancient writers who were themselves captivated by the ideal of a wise man in power.
And it really is just a portrait of a life.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
