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Meaning: Awrittendescription, oftenbiographical.Synonyms:pen portrait,sketch1842April 30, “Six Nights with the Washingtonians: A Series of Original Temperance Tales. New York: Curry & Co., 155 Broadway[book review]”, inBrother Jonathan, volume II, number 1, New York, N.Y.: Wilson and Company,→OCLC,page17, column 2:Mr.[Timothy Shay] Arthurhas been, and is, a close observer, and in his pictures of domestic life, his groups include all the necessary characters, while the back ground and filling up take in all the accessories and incidentals, which, skilfully managed, give apen-pictureitsvraisemblance.1863, J[ohn]Henry Hayward, “Editor’s Preface”, in J. Henry Hayward, editor,Poetical Pen-pictures of the War: Selected from Our Union Poets.[…], New York, N.Y.:[J. Henry Hayward][…],→OCLC,page iv:[O]ur purpose[…]was to secure a series ofPen Pictures, descriptive,—not of the most important events of the War, for that would be simply metrical history,—but of those events which have relation to the individual, that each and every particular poem might come home to some heart, and there find its abiding place throughg all time;[…]1893, Edwin H. Porter, “Lizzie A. Borden Indicted”, inThe Fall River Tragedy. A History of the Borden Murders.[…], Fall River, Mass.: Geo[rge]R. H. Buffinton; press of J. D. Monroe,→OCLC,page142:An afternoon newspaper published in Worcester, Mass., inflected upon its readers a screed worthy the ablest efforts of a Chicago anarchist.[…]It drew apen pictureof the dread disease [cholera] in the act of purging the city of Fall River of such men as would dare to insinuate that the young woman [Lizzie Borden] was guilty.1942November–December, “What Our Readers Think”, inThe Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press,→ISSN,→OCLC, page322:I was most amused by the article on Sir Henry Fowler in the series "Some C.M.Es. I have Known." It was a perfectpen pictureof one full of nervous energy.—MajorH[ewitt] P[earson] M[ontague] Beames,[…](formerly Chief Mechanical Engineer, L.M.S.R.).1987, Chandrakant Mehta, “Chitradars Hano”, inAmaresh Datta, editor,Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature, volumes I (A–Devo), New Delhi:Sahitya Akademi,→OCLC,page726, column 2:In the poem, the poet just gives apen pictureof his father, who according to him, represents all that is best in Aryan culture.2014, Jeremy Millar, Janine Bolger, “Working in the Life Space”, inJoyce Lishman, Janine Bolger, Neil Gibson, Gary Spolander, Chris Yuill, editors,Social Work: An Introduction, 3rd edition, London; Thousand Oaks, Calif.:SAGE Publications, published2023,→ISBN, part 3 (Models of Intervention),page377:If ego development has been disrupted by adverse life events, and especially an absence of nurturing during the formative years[…], we can expect this developmental weakness to be played out in a range of behaviours that cause society concern and often lead to the individual requiring specialist forms of care and support.[…]Below is apen pictureof a child lacking ego integrity.; (art,archaic)Apicturedrawnwith apen.Synonym:pen portrait
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