Sentences with phrase «sensitive portrait»

This approach revealed a highly sensitive portrait of the genes being expressed in human milk - making cells.

That's also the final judgement on the film: it's very possibly an improvement on fact that achieves that higher thing called truth out of a keenly sensitive portrait of a fascinating man who was as schizophrenic as his creations.

The graphics are chilling and evocative, the action sequences brief and serviceable, but what sticks in the mind are an unusually sensitive portrait of mental illness from the inside — the self - doubt, the bargaining, the chorus of mocking voices — and an acute sense of a vanished historical moment.

Also in the late 1950s, Levine painted a series of sensitive portraits of his wife and daughter.

The film imagines the lives of the subjects of two sensitive portraits drawn by Albrecht Dürer in the 16th Century.

«A shrewd political biography and a sensitive portrait of one of our most enigmatic heroes.»

What stands out in this sensitive portrait of her is just how many of her characteristic traits — an intense drive, an impulse to create art, a zany sense of fun — have survived.

«Creation» is not a picture that reloads the gun, sharpens the nails, or freshens the noose; it's a sensitive portrait of a controversial figure, meant to strip away over a century of accusation and condemnation, returning Darwin's essence back to its original home of trembling doubt.

Disobedience provides a sensitive portrait of immigration by showing the precise ways returnees can feel like foreigners in places that were once their homes.

One yearns to see The Danish Girl directed by David Cronenberg; I'd even settle for Danish director Jonas Alexander Arnby, who brings a disquieting understanding of morphosis to When Animals Dream (Altitude, 18), a sleek, sensitive portrait of a teenage girl finding her inner (and eventual outer) werewolf.

THE TRUTH ABOUT TULLY The truths come out slowly but surely in this sensitive portrait of family life on a Nebraska farm.

Linklater has crafted a finely tuned, sensitive portrait of America's hypocritical love affair with the military (you better stand for the national anthem and SUPPORT THE TROOPS, but Veteran Affairs?

Closely following Jene for over three years, Danish filmmaker Elvira Lind paints a sensitive portrait of an artist at a turning point in her life.

The sensitive portrait of an African - American boy struggling as he grows to manhood in Miami and comes to grips with his sexuality, the drama won a total of three awards, also taking Best Adapted Screenplay by Barry Jenkins and Best Supporting Actor for Mahershala Ali.

A sensitive portrait of a hesitant woman attempting to rediscover her lust for life makes for an assured feature debut from Marcelo Martinessi.

Based on true events, Campos» intimate and sensitive portrait of a woman on the brink is grounded by Hall's impeccable and transformative performance as Christine.

The day - to - day workings of hospital dwellers — doctors, nurses, patients and family members — who have to make incredibly difficult end - of - life decisions might seem like a parody of documentary short nominations, but it is an incredibly powerful and sensitive portrait of people in incredibly tough circumstances.

It's aiming for a sensitive portrait of a macro-aggressive time period, and carefully demarcates how Kreizler's crew stands in quite opposition to the cartoonishly blunt police department.

A love story for things lost and restored, a lyrical hymn to the power of forgiveness, Music of the Ghosts is a «sensitive portrait of the inheritance of survival» (USA Today) and a journey through the embattled geography of the heart where love can be reborn.

Small, square - frame illustrations, a gentle narrative, and a celebratory spirit provide a clear, sensitive portrait of Henri Matisse, story and soul alike, tracing his career as it evolved from paintings to paper cutouts.

Carter's clean and eloquent prose evokes a time when the cycles of life were predictable and simple and the rules were heartbreaking and complex - Carter creates a sensitive portrait of an era that shaped the nation.

As she did for Zelda Fitzgerald 30 years ago, Milford resurrects the great and courageous lyric poet Edna St. Vincent Millay from unwarranted marginalization, making extraordinarily compelling use of a vast private archive of Millay's diaries and letters in a vivid and sensitive portrait of a mercurial, original, and radiant artist.

«Aja Gabel's powerful debut offers a sensitive portrait of four young musicians forging their paths through life: sometimes at odds with each other, sometimes in harmony, but always inextricably linked by their shared pasts.»

Dealing mainly with femininity, which is refreshingly artful and not sexualised like many other people's works, his pictures are sensitive portraits of women in seemingly private moments of self - indulgence.

A paint - smeared Adam and Eve titled «He» and «She»; a sensitive portrait bust of Ms. Saul's husband, the painter Peter Saul, with tender blue eyes and a stand of asparagus - like brushes jammed into his crown; and several other ceramic people all seem intended to highlight every squalid embarrassment of the flesh.

A melancholy meditation on space, transience, and creativity, Matt Porterfield's short film Take What You Can Carry is a sensitive portrait of Lilly, an American expat living in Berlin.

This exhibition showcases not only Manzù's important religious works (such as his Cardinals series), but also his sensitive portraits of family members (until 3 April).

Today we revealed the 25 artworks that will be appear on poster sites around the UK; we take a closer look at the top 10, from David Hockney's sensitive portrait of his parents to an explosion of colour from John Hoyland.

This new edition expands on the scope of the old, adding new acquisitions and featuring 150 master works by artists from Asia, Europe and the Americas — from delicate Song - dynasty handscrolls to jewel - like images of medieval piety, scenes of mythic drama, austere still lifes, sensitive portraits, grand landscapes and jarring Modern visions.

Among the images not made in New York is one of a woman selling fruit in Mexico in 1956 showing Kattelson's playful geometry, capturing numerous diagonal lines surrounding his sensitive portrait.

Though known for her probing, sensitive portraits of friends, lovers and fellow New Yorkers of all stripes, painter Alice Neel (1900 - 1984) made equally expressionistic drawings and watercolors depicting the people she encountered in daily life, from her children and their families to poets, artists and cabaret performers.

If the other portraits by Stevens are not quite equal to this they yet fall very little below it, and the portrait of «Mrs. Young Mitchell» (Tate Gallery), though left unfinished on account of the death of the sitter, remains one of the most charming and sensitive portraits of its age.

His sensitive portraits of young girls in dark forests, detailed animal depictions and logos from heavy metal album covers are as if taken from a teenager's dairy.

There are, of course, his sensitive portraits of adults and children; enthralling images of men and women relaxing in the sun - dappled parks of Paris; lush still lifes; sparkling landscapes; and his demure yet voluptuous nudes.

The artists have turned out a wide variety of exceptional work for the past five years, ranging from architectural sculptures to sensitive portraits and lively abstract painting.