Word: portraits
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...marble antechamber, I breathed deeply that distinct change in smell, the sweetness evocative of aged pages, and felt the cooler, quieter atmosphere envelope me. In that life’s heart of the library, there the Gutenberg would light up before me, there Harry’s portrait hung above the fireplace, there his books remained lovingly preserved, there stood the vase of fresh flowers continually renewed...
...multifaceted portrait does not end there: Prosecutors are now depicting the former Harvard student as a compulsive—perhaps even pathological—mastermind who built his academic history on a thick stack of lies...
...attempt to understand how it relates, thematically and grammatically, to every other word in the poem in which it appears. Carson studies with similar rigor each inexplicable decision her brother made and every conversation she had with him. Definition by definition, poem by poem, Carson slowly creates a portrait, not of her deceased brother’s personality or character, but of the effect of his absence on his family, both before and after his death...
...Fiddler on the Roof.” A lot of people think it’s “West Side Story,” but it’s actually “Fiddler,” because it really tries to paint a portrait of a community in the midst of change, and we were going for the same thing—although with different demographics and different styles...
...asked about his music, The Doors’ iconic lead singer Jim Morrison drawls, “There is a heavy, gloomy feeling of someone not quite at home... aware of a lot of things but not sure of anything.” That feeling pervades this portrait of The Doors, lovingly assembled by director and writer Tom Dicillo, who recounts the history of the tumultuous band while trying to disentangle fact from myth...