Now all that, of course, has had to be left out, and thus the splendid portrait of the fictitious woman is much too simple and much too monotonous.

Humor and observation soothe the grotesqueness in these splendid portraits so the line between caricature and humanity blurs.

The fourth, Alikoshka Goliadkin, is a splendid portrait of the Evil One, both creature and creator of a world laid waste by war and corrupted in the peace that followed.

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After some bartering they acquired both the nude and a splendid portrait of a servant girl for five hundred francs.

A splendid portrait of Cling the Lofty and his two sons, now dead, glared down.

It was simply a splendid portrait painted, as they sometimes are, in our time.

When they entered, they found hanging upon the wall a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him, in all the wonder of his exquisite youth and beauty.

Some of the essays are splendid portraits in miniature - the sketch of the indomitable 18th-century bluestocking Elizabeth Carter, for instance.

There is a wide variety of splendid portraits foreign and domestic; Mr. Just can create character more effectively in a paragraph than some do in an entire volume.