"Portrayal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... kept on hugging and kissing her like this—" Billy went into an ecstasy of portrayal. Suddenly, however, he reeled into sanity, for Jude had struck him across the cheek with the back of a hand ...
— Joyce of the North Woods • Harriet T. Comstock
... immobility, due to the influence of religion, attached itself, at an early period, to Egyptian art. The artist, in the portrayal of the figures of the gods, was not allowed to change a single line in the conventional form. Hence the impossibility of improvement in sacred sculpture. Wilkinson says that Menes would have recognized the statue of Osiris in the Temple of Amasis. Plato complained ...
— A General History for Colleges and High Schools • P. V. N. Myers
... and especially of the Anglo-Saxon school, show a superbly decorative use both of gold and silver. The "Coronation Oath Book of the Anglo-Saxon Kings" is especially rich in this exquisite metallic harmony. By degrees, also, the Anglo-Saxons became more perfected in the portrayal of the human figure, so that by the twelfth century the work of the Southern schools and those of England were more alike than at ...
— Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages • Julia De Wolf Addison
... the portrayal of scenes, incidents, and celebrated people in the highest perfection of the photographers', ...
— Wholesale Price List of Newspapers and Periodicals • D. D. Cottrell's Subscription Agency
... representation, exact as possible, of the manners and characters of the dramatis persona of the play; and perhaps the conditions under which the play was written do not allow such representation. The exact and studied portrayal of a character demands from the author long preparation, and cannot be accomplished in a few hours. From, the first scene to the last, each tale must be posed in the author's mind exactly as it will be proved to be at the end. It ...
— Serge Panine, Complete • Georges Ohnet
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