On the west side of the arch, the central panel portrays the meeting of Atlantic and Pacific, with Labor joining the hands of the nations of east and west.
Delacroix's picture portrays a scene in this despoilment.
It was all in a day's work for Westsider Lenore Kasdorf, who portrays the popular villainess.
Turkey, whom the artist portrays as a hound lapping up the victim's blood, is fated to share the punishment for the crime.
The Hun is a master of many modes of killing, but however torn, or twisted, or tortured he leaves the murdered, Raemaekers can make the dreadful spectacle bearable by the piercing dignity with which he portrays the dead.
The author portrays characters who well might have existed in the flesh.
It must be said, however, that it portrays human nature: that is, thoughts and emotional reactions incited and elicited by new conditions and new aspirations in such a way as to pique the reader's curiosity and sustain his interest.
This suggests that metabolically Procyon lotor portrays a divergent line of this genus that arose as the result of a series of mutations that gave rise to different metabolic characteristics.
As such, it also represents a species that has evolved away from the procyonid norm and portrays the extreme in climate specialization.
Hotspur portrays himself in every phrase he utters, without ever saying a word directly about himself; and behind his outward, superficial peculiarities, we see into the deeper and more significant characteristics from which they spring.
The one portrays ungovernable passion in a woman; the other, criminal passion in a man.
In Valentine she portrays the impious and unfortunate marriage that the sacrilegious conventions of the world have imposed, and the results issuing therefrom.
He no longer vaunts a principle but portrays a human being.
In Lynge he portrays a man who has suffered an injury to his soul by a transplantation which could never be complete.
The first compartment portrays the Queen with the label, "I rule all.
The false prophet exposes that he may exploit his age; the true prophet portrays that he may purge it.
Every time a man truly preaches he so portrays what men ought to be, must be, and can be if they will, that they know there is something here "that leaps life's narrow bars To claim its birthright with the hosts of heaven!
In the tomb of a provincial governor of Upper Egypt has been found a painting which portrays a company of seventeen Bedouins bringing presents to the nobleman and asking that they be allowed to locate in his dominion.
The first portrays the embarking of the Egyptian fleet.
It portrays the anxious hesitation in the minds of both the lovers; and not until the second part does the motion flow free and full, till all resentment dies away in gentle murmurings.
The orchestra plays the principal part in the lively movement, 6-8, which portrays this situation.
The music has assumed a dolorous strain that vividly portrays the pathos of her last words.
Bizet has preceded every act with an orchestral introduction called the entr'acte, which presents some important theme or portrays the character of the scene.
It is apparently simple, and differs little from the form of a recitative, and yet so rare and strange is this melody that itportrays the legendary character of the opera more than any other phrase.
In this brilliant study of artistic temperament, Mr. Oppenheim portrays the spiritual struggle of an artist in such a way as to reveal the finer grain.
It is such an incident in the life of a successful romantic novelist which Mr. O'Higgins portrays in this story.
From that time it portrays how she fought a noble fight and climbed to wonderful heights of happiness and helpfulness.
Here, for instance, a vigorously carved panel portrays in unmistakeable fashion the woebegone plight of two seafaring pilgrims, whom a pair of jolly monks are ferrying across the troubled waters of Ramsey Sound.
Millet portrays the sad majesty and sweetness of the life near the soil.
Otherwise the occupation of Cuba portrays with reasonable exactitude the manner in which the Philippines will be taken over by Japan.
His genius thus powerfully portrays the interrelation of the seething unrest among those slaving in the bowels of the earth, and the spiritual revolt that seeks artistic expression.
With a master hand he portrays the destructive effects upon the human mind of the power of darkness, the superstitions of the Christian Church.
Bunyan portraysthe experiences of humanity in its journey from this world to the next.
Miss Austen takes an ordinary country village, observes its people as through a microscope, and portrays them to the life.
If heportrays a woman, he calls her a "female," makes her a model of decorum, and bores us by her sentimental gabbing.
The last-named poem portrays an old Colonial custom which provided that when death came to a farmhouse the bees must be told and their hives draped in mourning.
In his Reminiscences and Letters he fairly deifies his wife, calling her his queen, his star, his light and joy of life, and portrays a companionship as of two mortals in a Paradise without a serpent.
Its somber shadow and unanswered question intrude upon nearly all of his nature pieces; so much so that even his "June" portrays that blithe, inspiring month of sunshine and bird song as an excellent time to die.
One part, made up of prologues and interludes, portrays the characters and action of the present comedy; the other part, consisting of stories, reflects the comedies and tragedies of long ago.
If but one of these romances is to be read, let it be The House of the Seven Gables (1851), which is a pleasanter story than Hawthorne commonly tells, and which portrays one character that he knew by experience rather than by imagination.
He portrays his impressions upon entering with the victorious Christian host into the stately city.
Scene after scene, the first act portrays the cold and solemn beauty of Norwegian scenery as no painter's brush has contrived to do it.
Another feature in the conduct of Lady Inger portrays the ambitious but the inexperienced dramatist.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "portrays" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
