His literary work, intense and introverted, includes insightful portraits of his friends, and minutely observed portraits of the English countryside during World War II.

What Banner achieves in this book is an insightful portrait of her own family and her experiences in post-World War II America.

Kokoschka went on to a long career of painting, writing and humanitarian causes, but these insightful portraits are possibly his greatest achievements.

If Wolin's verdicts sometimes come too easily, his arguments, at their best, provide insightful portraits of the intellectual evolution of some of the last century's most ambitious political and social thinkers.

Beyond its topicality, Adams's novel offers an insightful and touching portrait of male friendship.

But over all this is a warm, insightful, affectionate portrait with a human and immensely charming Einstein at its core.

The more artistic among them might draft insightful psychological portraits, but they're more like Impressionist painters than digital photographers.

Among Ariyoshi's other novels is The River Ki, an insightful portrait of the lives of three rural women: a mother, daughter, and granddaughter.

In another series, "Androgeny," she offers insightful, intense portraits.

It has some truly wonderful, insightful portraits by a great master of analogue photography, but by my reckoning in at least 10% the subjects are slightly out of focus.