Meaning of microportrait | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An extremely small portrait.
2. A brief depiction of something.

Examples

“He takes me into an ascetic bedroom with a large carved bed. A few of his microportraits hang on the newly painted stucco walls.”

“The film presents a microportrait of life deep in the Amazon jungle.”

“The highly rhetorical descriptio of Philomena (ll;. 124–204) shows a courtly writer using a classical character to create a flattering microportrait of courtly society.”

“Jeremy Bernstein, Victor Lee and Aaron Feinberg run Meet Cutes NYC, which publishes microportraits of modern love on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube. Each video begins with Mr. Bernstein asking, "Excuse me, are you two a couple?" as the team approaches a pair of unsuspecting sweethearts with their camera. "Would you mind telling me the story of how you first met?"”

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