as in portrait
a vivid representation in words of someone or something
the author's meticulous portraiture of a small Midwestern town at the turn of the century
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Recent Examples of portraiture
Despite that notable change, watching One Battle After Another is much like the experience of reading Pynchon, who lurches from high comedy to stomach-turning naturalism and punctuates plot-heavy sequences with little grace notes of character portraiture.
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Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 24 Sep. 2025
His work explores intimacy, masculinity, queerness, heritage, and cross-cultural identity through portraiture, fashion, and documentary photography.
—Caterina De Biasio, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2025
Mixing political memory with collective portraiture, the Basque-language film explores post-Franco youthful idealism.
—Callum McLennan, Variety, 22 Sep. 2025
The artist Awol Erizku, known for turning Manet and Vermeer paintings into contemporary Black portraiture, posed Lee under a golden basketball net.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
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Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 24 Sep. 2025
His work explores intimacy, masculinity, queerness, heritage, and cross-cultural identity through portraiture, fashion, and documentary photography.
—Caterina De Biasio, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2025
Mixing political memory with collective portraiture, the Basque-language film explores post-Franco youthful idealism.
—Callum McLennan, Variety, 22 Sep. 2025
The artist Awol Erizku, known for turning Manet and Vermeer paintings into contemporary Black portraiture, posed Lee under a golden basketball net.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for portraiture
Noun
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Tombs, anvils, boats, villages, guns, portraits, fiddle toys.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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Outsize portraits of all three are hauled down endless streets as crowds of obligatory fans parade their wheelbarrows, shovels and carbines.—
Will Tizard,
Variety,
2 Nov. 2025
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However, this doesn't include pre-order items, which will have their shipping estimates listed in the product description.—
Trisha Easto,
USA Today,
25 Oct. 2025
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The only player fitting the indictment’s description is Anthony Davis.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
24 Oct. 2025
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His portrayal of a pompous, yapping intellectual who's rotten to the core rings uncomfortably true, as do the performances of Thatcher and East as their characters nonverbally communicate their discomfort to each other.—
Dennis Perkins,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Oct. 2025
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And yet, for all my disdain, there's a morbid lovableness to Pattinson's portrayal that manages to disarm the weary cynic that's grown with age.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
31 Oct. 2025
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Gone are the incisive and artful depictions of young people from the Asian and Latina women photographers laid off today.—
Katie Kilkenny,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Nov. 2025
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Fujimoto shoots in an almost documentary-like, fly-on-the-wall style from the very beginning, but this isn’t to say that the film is cold or analytical in its depiction of this story.—
Kambole Campbell,
IndieWire,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Portraiture.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/portraiture. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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