Use "self-portrait" in a sentence

1. Here is Jesus’ self-portrait as I told you about

2. Lastly, remember that the engraving, Melancholia Two, must be considered alongside his nude self-portrait, because together they give us the both external appearance of the mature artist, and his psychological profile

3. Barbara Jordan: American Hero, the 1998 work by Mary Beth Rogers, and Barbara Jordan: A Self-Portrait, the Congresswoman’s joint 1979 book with Shelby Hearon, both have more on this great Congresswoman

4. Kind of a self-portrait

5. Apart from a sexually aroused Panos leaning on a wall and some super-contorted nude poses of Ceres, he saw two self-portraits of Lea that revolted him and made him wonder what they meant

6. That, Duchairn thought, was an amazingly accurate self-portrait, although he doubted Clyntahn saw it that way

7. Afterward, cooling, sighing, chafed, he would study the reflection of his sleeping lover there, and would compare it to the unfinished self-portrait tacked to the wall

8. Here was the way he never asked Mercer about his work; the way he never talked about his own and yet seemed to carry it with him just beneath the skin; the way his skin looked in the sodium light from outside with the lights off, with clothes off, in silver rain; the way he embodied qualities Mercer wanted to have, but without ruining them by wanting to have them; the way he moved like a fish in the water of this city; the way his genius overflowed its vessel, running off into the drain; the unfinished self-portrait; the hint of some trauma in his past, like the war a shell-shocked town never talks about; his terrible taste in friends; his complete lack of discipline; the inborn incapacity for certain basic things that made you want to mother him, fuck him, give your right and left arms for him, this man-child, this skinny American; and finally his wildness, his refusal to be imaginable by anyone

9. ” When he turned to her, she was studying William’s self-portrait

10. He’d lie awake thinking about a city where people might actually be able to communicate their longings and disappointments and dreams, and so move beyond the illusion of being unknown and unknowable, as in the lights of passing buses, the half-finished self-portrait flared up and died

11. And sat down, still staring at myself to fix my self-portrait in place, and began to type, half the time not watching my fingers, keeping that young man old in a night in focus, in place, I did not want him to escape