Example sentences for: portraits

How can you use “portraits” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The austere installation of Chuck Close's big portraits at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City begins where any artist wants the narrative of his career to begin: with fully achieved art.

  • The effect: Sports news for Attention Deficit Disorder victims: lots of bite-sized items on very busy pages, lots of photo portraits of sports stars, none of SI 's in-depth features.

  • On the cover and inside: portraits of "the 65 leaders who shape and rule the world today."

  • Less amusing, but more typical, is an 1983 essay by James Atlas in The Atlantic Monthly , in which he offers up the spectacle of himself cringing at the feet of the New York intellectuals who helped him with his biography of poet Delmore Schwartz--and equally nasty portraits of the intellectuals themselves.

  • The portraits, in which he used calm observation and academic skill to depict external reality while representing the interior through distortion and paper-tearing physical force, are more troubling than many of the interestingly science-fictional renderings of his visions, for example.


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