Written description or analysis of a person or thing.
1 Some writers offer thinly-veiled literary portraits of Prime Ministers, others portrayed people living on the margins of society.
2 Literary portraits include Henry Lamb's portrait of Evelyn Waugh and Wyndham Lewis's portrait of Stephen Spender in 1938.
3 Literary portraits and ethical maxims have given place to a spicy mixture of scandal and philosophy, humanitarian speculations and equivocal bons mots.
4 Smith is at her best when she brings her characters to life with lush, literary portraits that often have a bit of humor.
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