microportrait

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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