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Example sentences for: portrait

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"But on costume grounds the portrait cannot be [of] Jane Austen."
Time 's excuse to put John Travolta on the cover: the release of the movie Primary Colors . Travolta stars as the Bill Clinton character, and Time says it's a believable portrait of the president, one that includes all his lecherousness and charm.
Although many note that this is "a junior-league One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest " (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ) and that the film lapses into trite battles between patients and hospital staff, the film stays mainly on target, at its best when displaying its "meticulous, true-to-life portrait of a time (the late 1960's) and place (the hothouse world of upper-middle-class Boston suburbia)" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ). (Click here to visit the official site.)
In November he started his Big Self-Portrait . Three years later, an Artforum interview referred to Close by his nickname, "Chuck"--which an assistant had scrawled on some photographs for the piece--and the name stuck as his professional moniker.
Still, Wolfe's portrait captures an essential truth.