In his strictly-for-publication letters to patrons Aretino would often add a verbal portrait to Titian's painted one.

They are known for their narrative skill and the verbal portraits of their characters.

Somewhere in the accumulating verbal portrait of Lorna Kepler was the key to her death.

The chronicle includes verbal portraits of numerous contemporaries, including Frederick Barbarossa.

Memorialists paint their subjects, too, but most verbal portraits reveal themselves as blends of imagination and literary convention.

It is firmly ensconced in the literature as one of the most revealing verbal portraits of the composer's philosophy and personality.

I wanted to be able to give Beth a verbal portrait of her father's last day.

I ant a short verbal portrait, please, Mrs. Bantry, of all the f7reg - ing.

But he simply preferred to paint cheerful verbal portraits of the game.

He drew a vivid verbal portrait of another world.