Sentences with phrase «good author portrait»

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Author Jack Shepherd of BuzzFeed also claims cats are faster, smarter and take the best self - portraits.

One could argue that such portraits are part and parcel of their hilariously hyperbolic writing style, but such obviously overdrawn characterizations reinforce the reader's feeling that the authors» only definition of a good mother is that of a mordant political activist with their particular brand of feminist conscience,

Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp (R for profanity, sexuality and violence) Pink Caddy documentary examining the life of the legendary Chicago pimp - turned - best selling author (1918 - 1992).

Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia: This documentary about the late author, historian, social commentator, and wit would be a must - see no matter what, but it's also being hailed as a rounded, nuanced portrait of Vidal as well.

The author showed an understanding of perspective, drawing a rich and vivid portrait of the world that his well drawn character, Sir Alfie Clay, inhabited with all his interesting quirks.

If you've ever wondered about the day - to - day life of the best - selling novelist, read the profile «John Irving: the hitman» in The Telegraph, in which journalist Ariel Leve writes an intimate portrait of the author.

The distance serves the author well, however, as a good feminist portrait of Gonne emerges which might not otherwise be possible.

From a New York Times best - selling author, a boldly imagined portrait of Virginia Woolf that sheds new light on the events that preceded her fatal immersion in the River Ouse in 1941 On April 18, 1941, twenty - two days after Virginia Woolf went for a walk near her weekend house in Sussex and never returned, her body was reclaimed from the River Ouse.

CEO Michael Pietsch said, «Our good first quarter results came from many places: # 1 bestselling books by HBG house authors James Patterson, David Baldacci, Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child, and Brad Meltzer, from backlist hits like You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero, Obama: An Intimate Portrait by Pete Souza, and Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, and from breakout bestsellers including Michael Isikoff & David Corn's riveting Russian Roulette, Jennifer Palmieri's powerful Dear Madam President, Peter Brown's delightful The Wild Robot Escapes and Vashti Harrison's inspiring Little Leaders.

Having to look at portraits of the same dead authors over and over isn't much better (that's what the non-ad Kindles show).

Amongst the works included are Neel's third and final portrait of her friend the author Max White as well as two powerful portraits of her sons Hartley and Richard as young men.

These include a rakish portrait of Douglas shown alongside a kindly, colourful Wilde, as well as a mischievous depiction of French author Jean Genet (1910 - 1986), whose semi-autobiographical literature made deeply homoerotic subjects of prison and prisoner alike.

This group of portraits includes well - known figures such as playwright, actress, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr.; the community activist Mercedes Arroyo; and the widely published academic Harold Cruse; alongside more anonymous individuals of a nurse, a ballet dancer, a taxi driver, a businessman, and a local kid who ran errands for Neel.

Neel's portrait of Harold Cruse, author of The Crisis of the Black Intellectual, is among the exhibition's best.

This group of portraits includes well - known figures such as playwright, actress, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr.; the community activist Mercedes Arroyo; and the widely published academic Harold Cruse; alongside more anonymous individuals of a nurse, a ballet dancer, a taxi driver, a businessman, a local kid who ran errands for Neel, and other children and their families.

MACUF - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Gas Natural Fenosa, La Coruña Under the title «Almost Anything», the exhibition of the american artist Alex Katz at the Contemporary Art Museum Gas Natural Fenosa, MACUF, presents a selection of 22 paintings of landscapes, scenes and portraits, mostly of them large size, with the plain style of this author of flat compositions, silhouettes and «cutouts», as well as portraits on cut out wood he has been made since the sixties.

He is the author of eighteen books and pamphlets and poetry, including most recently Portrait and Dream: New & Selected Poems, Gloria (with etchings by Alex Katz) and Goods and Services, as well as an epistolary collaboration by Bernadette Mayer entitled What's Your Idea of a Good Time?

Its first president was Sir Joshua Reynolds, a brilliant painter of lively and elegant portraits as well as an influential lecturer / author whose Discourses authoritatively addressed many aesthetic topics — including the preeminence of history painting.