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Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or a picture or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Bob mounted the portrait in a fancy frame, but it was upside down.
That portrait reminds me of someone I knew a long time ago.
The portrait was taken from the wall.
This is a portrait of my late father.
This portrait is nearly as large as life.
I am pleased with this vivid portrait in particular.
I had the artist paint my portrait.
There is a portrait of Bob on the wall.
Do you see the portrait?
The portrait had a dark background.
A portrait was hung on the wall.
A portrait of an old man was hanging on the wall.
According to Belarusian laws, not having a portrait of President Lukashenko in one's apartment or house is punishable by the death penalty.
According to European laws, the punishment for having a portrait of President Lukashenko in one's apartment or house is a life in Belarus.
Tom painted a good portrait of his mother.
Tom is a famous portrait painter.
It's a portrait of my deceased father.
My pet bear always sleeps on the floor by my bed, right under the portrait of Putin.
Tom looked at his father's portrait.
There is a portrait of Tom Jackson on the wall.
Movie subtitles
D. oh, G. you have to keep the macaroni portrait.
You can't even throw away the macaroni portrait.
Greetings from Soviet Russia. Burn all the New York magazines and hang a portrait of Lenin in my office.
Gwymplaine! One portrait, just one portrait!
I would say without hesitation that the general opinion of the art world is that this is the greatest portrait ever painted.
You know, portrait of a lamp shade upside-down. to represent a soul in torment.
It was there that I found her, there in front of the fire. under her own portrait.
It was Jacoby, who had recently painted her portrait.
You want the portrait. Perfectly understandable.
You haven't had your portrait painted?
That is his portrait, by the way.
Of course, I can't believe that anyone is really as handsome as that portrait.
You prefer him today, but when you are a young lady. and are turning all the heads in London, you may prefer the portrait.
Burn all the New York magazines and hang a portrait of Lenin in my office.
Staring at the portrait as he did, he thought it came to life and smiled at him.
Full of shame and anxiousness, he turned to his mother's portrait but the image seemed distant and faded.
Even the portrait had abandoned him.
Say. we could get that old bluff Chandler to buy a portrait from you.
I commission you to paint a portrait of me immediately.
Listen, the carpenter is coming to have his portrait taken.
Yes. With a column, the portrait will really stand out.
Did you bring me a portrait of the grand duke?
As for you, I'm sure that if I did your portrait.
Mr. Haines wants to know if he can have the portrait of Little Mary.
Remove that man's portrait from my sight.
The portrait of a canterville.
Self portrait again?
Some guy who wants his portrait done.
I'll give his snapshot to Maurice. and he can do the portrait.
Here's your portrait.
And that's all that's left of that gorgeous girl in the portrait.
Not this modern stuff, I hope, you know, portrait of a lampshade upside down to represent a soul in torment.
Her portrait hangs in my room. My father painted it.
You could paint my portrait.
And are you doing a portrait of anyone exciting at the moment?
I was just suggesting that Mr Leyden should paint your portrait.
Oh. But I don't care to have my portrait painted.
News and current affairs
Kenichi Ohmae offers a portrait.
Just as Mao's portrait has never been taken down from The Gate of Heavenly Peace, so whole elements of his revolution continue to survive in China's institutions, ways of thinking, and modes of interacting with the world.
Though his memoirs paint a characteristic portrait of a leader who knew what he was doing, research for my new biography shows that his policy towards the crisis across the Mediterranean combined hope and frustration.
On one hand, some international media painted a black-and-white (and not always entirely objective) portrait of the March violence as a brutal Chinese crackdown on peaceful Tibetan monks.
The portrait that emerges has been executed with bold strokes, vivid colors, and striking images.
The Communist Party, of course, remains in power, and Mao's portrait still looms over Tiananmen Square.
In parliament, the government has unveiled a portrait of Vinayak Savarkar, a pre-independence Hindu nationalist, one of whose followers assassinated Mahatma Gandhi.
His portrait and body remain on display in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, and his face appears on banknotes in the wallet of every Chinese, many of whom saw parents, children, and other loved ones die under his knife.
In repose (as witnessed on the split screen in the reaction shots) he was often perfectly immobile, almost stony, as if posing for a portrait.
Karl Marx would have been proud of them, but it was the Pope's portrait that hung on the gate of Gdansk's Lenin Shipyard during the strike.
But Leviathan's bleak portrait of contemporary Russian life actually confirms many of the reasons why Americans have been largely dubious about Russia's ability to reform following communism's collapse.
Should Chairman Mao's huge portrait still hang above the front gate of Tiananmen Square?
In the space of just 30 years, Berlusconi's TV stations managed to impose this illusory portrait of success on Italian society.