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  • If National Geographic portrayed them as such, it was because National Geographic filmed during the day.†   (source)
  • The decaying fresco portrayed Jesus and His disciples at the moment that Jesus announced one of them would betray Him.†   (source)
  • In Kabul, Najibullah changed tactics and tried to portray himself as a devout Muslim.†   (source)
  • He portrays himself as a preservationist with a social conscience.†   (source)
  • Books portrayed them as oversize, dumpy creatures, but this long-necked animal had a gracefulness, almost a dignity, about its movements.†   (source)
  • Nazi propaganda portrayed the events of that night as a spontaneous demonstration against Jews as retaliation for the killing of a German diplomat in Paris by a young Jew named Herschel Grynszpan.†   (source)
  • They conversed in a friendly way about Daddy, portraying him as a "hands-on manager," a "lifelong farmer."†   (source)
  • But your legends portray me as a damsel who waited in a tower with a magic necklace that would help the heroic prince.†   (source)
  • What a blow for those who have always portrayed Dum-bledore as the Muggle-borns' greatest champion!†   (source)
  • I told her Phillip is not the man he portrayed himself to be.†   (source)
  • It would be simpler for my mother to portray her success as a straightforward triumph over victimhood, just as it would be simpler to look at Joe Flom and call him the greatest lawyer ever, even though his individual achievements are so impossibly intertwined with his ethnicity, his generation, the particulars of the garment industry, and the peculiar biases of the downtown law firms.†   (source)
  • She won by very convincingly portraying herself as weak and helpless so that she would be ignored.†   (source)
  • The British press called the HeLa hybrids an "assault on life," and portrayed Harris as a mad scientist.†   (source)
  • The little boy had been portrayed well, but as for the rest…. the less said the better.†   (source)
  • I could imagine him holed up and pacing all too clearly, trapped and prowling, relishing the drama of the predicament, a framed cop in a jail cell as portrayed by Farley Granger.†   (source)
  • They thought I had portrayed their business in an unfavorable light, which was true.†   (source)
  • On TV, teenagers were portrayed as happy, carefree.†   (source)
  • With the right rumors they can be portrayed as the most despicable monsters in Alagaesia-fiends who are waiting to seize your land and wealth.†   (source)
  • I've read about it a hundred thousand times, seen actors portray it in a thousand different plays and movies.†   (source)
  • 1865 issue of the National Police Gazette portrays scenes from what it calls "The Assassin's Carnival" — the assassination of Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, the attempted assassination of Secretary of State William H. Seward in his bed, and the deathbed of the president.†   (source)
  • You could, I suppose, try being really, really earnest, portraying the characters as very serious and sober, making them noble by virtue of their goodness.†   (source)
  • The long-term deals now being offered to cattlemen are portrayed as innovations that will save, not destroy, the beef industry.†   (source)
  • The way the narrators portray Egyptian magic is also supported by archaeological evidence.†   (source)
  • It wasn't hard for her to portray Ammu as the person actually responsible for Sophie Mors death.†   (source)
  • He was portrayed in matador costume with a magenta cape flung over his left arm.†   (source)
  • I don't want to portray my mother as perfect because she was human too.†   (source)
  • I knew I wanted to portray him as he was and not as some impossibly perfect reincarnation of Old Yeller or Rin Tin Tin, as if there were any danger of that.†   (source)
  • People are portrayed precisely as they are.†   (source)
  • I didn't want to raise the subject at first, and so for a time we chatted about the upcoming Festival of the Ages, in which Mameha was scheduled to portray Lady Murasaki Shikibu, author of The Tale of Genji.†   (source)
  • If the very warm reception of me in Cuba is portrayed as because I'm thought to be a sycophantic ally of Cuba, then the Cuban doctors' concern for the poor of Haiti would be lost."†   (source)
  • Erika Berger was portrayed as an incompetent media bimbo: A rumour is circulating that Millennium is on the verge of collapse in spite of the fact that the editor in chief is a feminist who wears mini-skirts and pouts her lips on TV.†   (source)
  • It's not a thrilling tale of adventure or the kind of fairy-tale romance portrayed in movies, but it felt like divine intervention.†   (source)
  • One of his minions had driven twenty-seven miles to get one, because the governor planned to throw his hat into the Democratic primary in 2008 and knew this was a perfect media moment during which he could portray compassion at its strongest.†   (source)
  • She knows deep down how much importance I put on controlling the image I portray, while she doesn't care if she's suspended …. or expelled.†   (source)
  • Mkentane portrayed his namesake, while I played John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln's assassin.†   (source)
  • Behind her on the wall hung a large tapestry that portrayed a meeting in some vanished landscape between two horsemen on a road.†   (source)
  • During the war, the Adventures of Superman program had portrayed its hero fighting Hitler and Mussolini and Hirohito.†   (source)
  • Men who wrote about the Great Fire generally portrayed women as passive and helpless, waiting for their husbands, brothers, or some other man to save them.†   (source)
  • As a boy Marko was certain that the brave men whose graves he guarded so intensely had met their fates with the same sort of selfless heroism that he saw portrayed in endless war movies at the local cinema.†   (source)
  • Urmi introduced us to Geeta Ghosh, who portrayed a very different Sonagachi than the one seen on DMSC tours.†   (source)
  • Not only did it escalate her worry, it also infuriated her whenever the U.S. military was portrayed in a negative light.†   (source)
  • I remembered my niang had said that this story portrayed a Chinese woman's determination to remain faithful to her man.†   (source)
  • It's an ending that continues to elude some of the individuals portrayed in the story.†   (source)
  • His mother had been portrayed not as a mother who simply adored her only son, but as an obscene child playing dirty games with whatever male was near—be it her father or her son.†   (source)
  • I'm mesmerized by her ability to hypnotize an entire audience with such powerfully portrayed words.†   (source)
  • Death in battle was portrayed as an honor to the family and a transcendent act on the part of the individual.†   (source)
  • The only time Jaime lost his patience was one morning when he awoke to find the city plastered with angry posters that portrayed a full-bellied, lonely woman vainly attempting to wrest her son from the arms of a Communist soldier who was dragging him off to Moscow.†   (source)
  • Early on, they understood that Cedric was a main character of the book, but they also knew that many of them might be portrayed in a narrative that would unfold-for better or worse-across the unknown arc of their first year of college.†   (source)
  • Reluctantly at first, I told her about my visit to my mother's old room, but I recast my time with the probationer as something casual, portraying myself as the indifferent participant.†   (source)
  • It portrayed a group of white neighborhood kids defending their turf against a gang of Hispanic immigrants.†   (source)
  • Here upon this stage the black rite of Horatio Alger was performed to God's own acting script, with millionaires come down to portray themselves; not merely acting out the myth of their goodness, and wealth and success and power and benevolence and authority in cardboard masks, but themselves, these virtues concretely!†   (source)
  • In the General Evening Post, one soldier portrayed the scene in Boston as nothing but "melancholy, disease, and death."†   (source)
  • I would portray her children as two distinct personalities, as little babies with a complicated medical condition, nothing more.†   (source)
  • Instead, we had a red-haired guy on the team, so Carrot Top would portray him for sure.†   (source)
  • Yet it has always been simplistic to portray our differences as simply Irish versus English -- or British.†   (source)
  • If we leave out our tortillas—and by that I mean the language, history, cultural values, and themes of our literature—the very culture we're portraying will die.†   (source)
  • In his life Eugenides has gone to great lengths to portray himself as a noncombatant, so people assume he is.†   (source)
  • Romance, on the other hand, dilates upon their piety and heroism, and portrays, in her most glowing and impassioned hues, their virtue and magnanimity, the imperishable honor they acquired for themselves, and the great services they rendered to Christianity.†   (source)
  • That lone surviving window portrays an image of Jesus Christ ministering to a group of small children.†   (source)
  • Whatever quality of human greatness I have the talent to portray-that was the quality the outer world sought to degrade.†   (source)
  • Life-style wanted him, wanted the strong, sometimes concise, sometimes ambiguous emotions his pictures could portray.†   (source)
  • She believes that the kind of masculinity portrayed is especially appealing: "The urban black male represents someone who knows how to pick up women, who knows how to handle himself on the street, who perhaps knows how to handle a weapon and can take care of himself, and so for the white suburban male these kinds of symbols, this kind of way of walking or talking or dressing, can give one the trappings of a masculinity that doesn't perhaps exist in the safe white suburbs.†   (source)
  • Natalie's mother didn't mind that Natalie was portraying Mary, mother of Jesus, in the Christmas pageant.†   (source)
  • Though often portrayed as a strictly North-South controversy with clearly defined pro and con camps, the issue of slavery was much more complex and muddy than its geographical delineations.†   (source)
  • The writings portrayed a jesting, curious connoisseur of humanity and its wants.†   (source)
  • The press was there in force, but I sensed that they understood, too, that the occasion wasn't particularly momentous or crucial to the disposition of actual events, the real violence and tension, even if they would portray it as such on the evening programs.†   (source)
  • Giotto's blues and Caravaggio's shadows had been united to portray a tranquil forest in neither night nor day but, rather, in a condition of the spirit.†   (source)
  • He is portrayed "stalking the streets" of Athens barefoot, "rolling his eyes" at remarks he found unintelligent, and "gazing up" at the clouds.†   (source)
  • On how you portray his father in the courtroom if you go to trial.†   (source)
  • At some point during the meeting, someone probably spoke up and said, "Uh, Bob, I know this might sound weird, but why don't we try portraying a functional American family?"†   (source)
  • Hours passed as I viewed one after another, moved by the stories and lives portrayed.†   (source)
  • Mothers often portrayed fathers in too flattering a light.†   (source)
  • I was also convinced that something as fun as deer hunting should never be portrayed as being something bland.†   (source)
  • For within these confessions it will be discovered that we really have no acquaintance with true evil; the evil portrayed in most novels and plays and movies is mediocre if not spurious, a shoddy concoction generally made up of violence, fantasy, neurotic terror and melodrama.†   (source)
  • I began to perceive that Uncle Hal's stories always portrayed him as the soul of manly chivalry.†   (source)
  • The musicians shouted out the words of the stories as the actors, who never spoke, portrayed the awesome exploits of Rama and of the Pandava brothers.†   (source)
  • That was how life's storm cast you up on my shore, O my pride, that is how I'll portray you.†   (source)
  • From the mouth of one of the gargoyles in the tower, a syrupy voice roared: "SEE THE DRAMA OF THE GODS PORTRAYED IN VIBRANT ROBOT-ACTION IN YE WEE KIRK O TH' GLEN.†   (source)
  • So, on-screen, Gale can simply be portrayed as a fellow rebel.†   (source)
  • The skeleton was carrying a tablet portraying the same pyramid and stars they had seen outside.†   (source)
  • The painting quite overtly portrays our forefathers receiving great wisdom from the gods.†   (source)
  • Christian art never portrays God as the hawk sun god, or as an Aztec, or as anything weird.†   (source)
  • The theater of the absurd often portrays situations that are absolutely trivial.†   (source)
  • The walls were decorated with additional photos portraying the Outer Banks.†   (source)
  • He has eyes so expressive they give a hint to more than what he portrays.†   (source)
  • All was "tumult and hurry," just as portrayed in English novels.†   (source)
  • Observing her, I can't help but hope she isn't as uptight as her wardrobe portrays her to be.†   (source)
  • If she wanted to portray the atmosphere, she had to let herself feel it.†   (source)
  • Third, it looks less likely that Salander is the lone nutcase she has been portrayed as.†   (source)
  • She would be portrayed as a veritable Circe charming the gallant Britons with her feminine wiles.†   (source)
  • Some aspects of Romeo's character I found easy to portray, but others were difficult.†   (source)
  • Red was the instrument with which they portrayed mortality; green, nature; gold, God.†   (source)
  • Writing to explain his dismissal to a nephew, McHenry portrayed Adams as "actually insane."†   (source)
  • It was a forced march, not a rout, as sometimes portrayed.†   (source)
  • Deep down I knew I had no idea how I should portray him.†   (source)
  • And here I was, portraying him with pride.†   (source)
  • In Brown's portrait, he appeared composed, leaner than Copley had portrayed him, and reflective.†   (source)
  • Possibly, Adams was as ludicrous as Maclay portrayed him.†   (source)
  • A senior Weekday Warrior named Holly Moser sketched nude self-portraits in charcoal pencil, portraying her rotund form in all its girth.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Moodie herself saw Grace in the Asylum — the violent ward, I believe — and portrays a gibbering madwoman, shrieking like a phantom and running about like a singed monkey.†   (source)
  • Marie had drawn the less common "closed" form of the blade, although Langdon had seen the symbol portrayed both ways.†   (source)
  • The enchanted dolphin prince was played by a geisha named Umiyo; in addition, there were roles for geisha portraying wind, sunlight, and sprays of water—as well as a few apprentices in charcoal and blue kimono at the far reaches of the stage, playing dolphins calling their prince back to them.†   (source)
  • The decision was portrayed in the media as the "greening" of McDonald's and a great victory for the environmental movement.†   (source)
  • No matter how historians and writers later tried to portray the scene, the reality at the time was completely prosaic.†   (source)
  • In the mid-'80s, when the character of Max Headroom was created, computers weren't actually powerful enough to generate a photorealistic human figure, so Max had been portrayed by an actor (the brilliant Matt Frewer) who wore a lot of rubber makeup to make him look computer-generated.†   (source)
  • …good with children good with loaves, fishes, water, wine thirty-three years of age when last seen employed as carpenter known to use humble modes of transportation, feet or donkeys preferred believed to have walked on water often portrayed with arms outstretched known to have spent time alone in the wilderness believed to have had a confrontation with the devil, possibly tempted last seen in the company of thieves creator of many aphorisms and parables buried, but arose on…†   (source)
  • The mural portrays the Father of Our Country using a tripod and pulley to lay the cornerstone of our Capitol Building on September 18, 1793, between the hours of eleven fifteen and twelve thirty.†   (source)
  • However, the game does portray something else that really existed on Trisolaris: the Trisolaran-formation computer.†   (source)
  • Although Supreme Beef portrayed itself in the case as an innocent victim of forces beyond its control, much of the beef used at the plant had come from its own slaughterhouse in Ladonia, Texas.†   (source)
  • In a bizarre attempt to reflect this theme of modern enlightenment and yet stay within the decorative register of Renaissance architecture, the stairway banisters had been carved with cupidlike putti portrayed as modern scientists.†   (source)
  • Legend had always portrayed the Grail as a cruel mistress, dancing in the shadows just out of sight, whispering in your ear, luring you one more step and then evaporating into the mist.†   (source)
  • Not only had Milton made a well-documented 1638 pilgrimage to Rome to "commune with enlightened men," but he had held meetings with Galileo during the scientist's house arrest, meetings portrayed in many Renaissance paintings, including Annibale Gatti's famous Galileo and Milton, which hung even now in the IMSS Museum in Florence.†   (source)
  • While Las Vegas portrays itself as a free-wheeling, entrepreneurial town where anyone can come and strike it rich, life there is more tightly regulated, controlled, and monitored by hidden cameras than just about anywhere else in the United States.†   (source)
  • Amid the Varden's enthusiastic cheering, Eragon allowed himself a secret smile at how well Nasuada played upon their emotions, inspiring confidence, loyalty, and high spirits in spite of a reality that was far less optimistic than she portrayed it.†   (source)
  • Venting his "fire" in a private letter, Adams portrayed Dickinson as a "piddling genius" who lent a "silly cast" to deliberations.†   (source)
  • I remember one where a little male child punched a bully, and that was portrayed as being the right thing to do.†   (source)
  • Piper thought about her dad's most famous movie, King of Sparta, and how the Spartans were portrayed as invincible supermen.†   (source)
  • The government portrayed itself as a bulwark against the return of alien, Tutsi hegemony, the ever-present threat, which events in Burundi made entirely plausible.†   (source)
  • At last he realized that theywanted him to continue; they wanted to hear more about the cause and the future he had portrayed.†   (source)
  • He had carved it intricately, so that each face portrayed a different fairy, dressed in the trappings of the seasons.†   (source)
  • The only two books with any real ambition to portray the work of the Security Police were Power Struggle for Säpo and Espionage in Sweden.†   (source)
  • The very newspaper that the actor had once hoped would print the letter explaining his actions is instead portraying him as an abomination.†   (source)
  • Dag Svensson, Mia Johansson, and Nils Bjurman were portrayed in a long article in one of the evening papers.†   (source)
  • I'd portrayed his dead father as a drunken hypocrite who might have been killed by anyone, and the jury's verdict had given the portrayal at least some validation.†   (source)
  • The problem was that, in the view of the keepers of the canon, the human condition portrayed in our literature was Chicano and the keepers knew nothing about us.†   (source)
  • The British may lodge a protest with us regarding the illegal seizure of blacks, but they really have nothing to base it on since this can be portrayed as a domestic issue for the Spanish.†   (source)
  • They will dine in the White House family residence on the second floor, which Jackie renovated in 1961, hand-selecting the antique wallpaper portraying scenes from the American Revolution.†   (source)
  • The prosecution introduced the letter and Mr. Findlay's testimony in an effort to portray Mrs. Smith as so maliciously selfish that she was prepared to trade the lives of her children for a chance to reclaim him.†   (source)
  • The media eagerly glommed on to this story, portraying crack dealing as one of the most profitable jobs in America.†   (source)
  • Adam Brown's civilian and military life has been recounted to me by his family, friends, and teammates—all eyewitnesses to each event portrayed in this book, including what Adam told them directly about his history and spiritual testimony.†   (source)
  • He dilated upon the piety and heroism of 'The Three Musketeers,' portrayed, in the most glowing and impassioned hues, their virtue and magnanimity, the imperishable honor they acquired for themselves, and the great services they rendered to Christianity, It was entirely Billy's fault that this fighting organization no longer existed, Weary felt, and Billy was going to pay.†   (source)
  • In one, television portrayed happy families who represented the typical American values, though everyone was white and comfortably middle-class.†   (source)
  • On the low shelf rested statues of the six major dwarf gods, as well as nine other entities Eragon was unfamiliar with, all carved with exaggerated features and postures to better convey the character of the being portrayed.†   (source)
  • The movie would portray Marines training in New Zealand, fighting on Tarawa, on leave in Hawaii, and in the closing few minutes, landing on Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • Her arm, thinner than those that Rubens had portrayed but just as voluptuous and thirty times as strong, looked as if it could smash stone columns, and she gesticulated fiercely.†   (source)
  • "You never know what they're going to ask or how they're going to portray it," he told Mark a few years before he died, in explaining why he'd turned down a CBS affiliate's request for an interview.†   (source)
  • It was John Brown who apparently performed many of the most dramatic and dangerous episodes portrayed in The Klan Unmasked—physically attending Klan meetings and other functions in Atlanta—but since Stetson Kennedy was the man who later wrote the book, he rendered Brown's actions as his own.†   (source)
  • Indeed, in a letter to Congress written that same day, Washington portrayed much of the army as plainly "contemptible."†   (source)
  • Again and again, despite abundant opportunity, the three boys refused to pick up the theme of press and speechmakers and portray themselves as valiant warriors who hoisted the colors against sheets of enemy fire.†   (source)
  • She portrayed Chairman Mao as the greatest political strategist ever, a man who could outmaneuver all his political enemies.†   (source)
  • A memorable story of an incident that occurred at about this time may or may not be entirely reliable, but portrays vividly the level of tension among the troops and Washington's own pent-up anger and exasperation.†   (source)
  • How could an unopposed forty-five-minute climb up a hill and a quiet flagraising be portrayed as a valiant fight to the death?†   (source)
  • I eventually enjoyed portraying this arrogant prince, a prince who would have been considered evil in communist China.†   (source)
  • Like nearly everyone who ever played a large part in public life and helped make history, Adams wondered how history would portray him, and worried not a little that he might be unfairly treated, misunderstood, or his contributions made to look insignificant compared to those of oth-ers.†   (source)
  • But confined to the house in the bitter cold of January 1813, Adams portrayed himself as a case study worthy of Rush's attention and pity.†   (source)
  • I liked the courage he portrayed.†   (source)
  • There was no frenzied rush to name "midnight judges," as portrayed by Jefferson and the Republican press.†   (source)
  • Jefferson portrayed himself as living plainly, "farmerlike," as though he had little more on his mind than crops and weather.†   (source)
  • Through the sweltering summer, Adams never missed a day in the Senate, rolling in each morning from Richmond Hill in a one-horse chaise, not the fine carriage portrayed in hostile newspaper accounts.†   (source)
  • Warming to the subject of his memorial, he portrayed it as the great catalyst for turning the entire point of view of the Dutch and thus affecting all Europe.†   (source)
  • Samuel Adams was quick to callthe killings a "bloody butchery" and to distribute a print published by Paul Revere vividly portraying the scene as a slaughter of the innocent, an image of British tyranny, the Boston Massacre, that would become fixed in the public mind.†   (source)
  • The small, everyday pleasures, the calm, the reassuring sameness of life in and about Quincy had proven as beneficial as the pastoral ideal portrayed by the poets he loved and that he himself had so long pictured as his salvation.†   (source)
  • He portrayed the measure as an act of bad faith on the part of America, implying it could have serious consequences to the alliance, and he called on Adams to request Congress to "retrace its steps and do justice to the subjects of the King."†   (source)
  • But after several weeks at Passy, living together in close quarters, accompanying Franklin on his social rounds, observing the daily routine and how things were being run, Adams began to see another man than the idolized sage who, if not the villain portrayed by Lee and Izard, nonetheless gave Adams pause.†   (source)
  • I do not wonder Washington wished to retire from it, or rejoiced in seeing an old oak in his place," observed Abigail, who in her letters to her sister Mary was to provide an inside look at the Adams presidency like no other, much as she had in portraying their life in France and London years before, writing always to the moment and with untrammeled candor.†   (source)
  • Thereafter to be portrayed in murals at the ends of countless corridors, carved upon the walls of Temples and painted onto the ceilings of numerous palaces, came the awakening of he who was variously known as Mahasamatman, Kalkin, Manjusri, Siddhartha, Tathagatha, Binder, Maitreya, the Enlightened One, Buddha and Sam.†   (source)
  • I had a moment of gloom: Would I be able to summon the passion, the insight to portray this young suicide?†   (source)
  • This is how I will portray you, I'll trace your features on paper as the sea, after a fearful storm has churned it up, traces the form of the greatest, farthest-reaching wave on the sand.†   (source)
  • It would demean the Professor needlessly, would place too much emphasis on the sycophancy he had occasionally displayed in the face of manifestations of German might and potency, to portray him as buffoonishly servile in Duffield's presence; he possesses, after all, his own illustrious repute as a scholar and an expert in his field.†   (source)
  • Had he told the truth in a persistent way, portraying Jews as they really are—bent upon monopolizing and dominating the world economy, poisoning morality and culture, attempting through Bolshevism and other means to bring down civilized governments—he might have performed a necessary function.†   (source)
  • Here, indeed, is portrayed with graphic touch the final all-engulfing cataclysm.†   (source)
  • I have, however, felt bound to portray the shadow which, alike in the west and in the east, falls upon the world.†   (source)
  • There is a foreign atmosphere about him, the stamp of an alien radical, a strong resemblance to the type Anarchist as portrayed, bomb in hand, in newspaper cartoons.†   (source)
  • I have felt bound to portray the shadow which, alike in the west and in the east, falls upon the world.†   (source)
  • The anguish which she had portrayed Carrie could feel.†   (source)
  • RAGENEAU: Marry, 'twould puzzle even our grim painter Philippe de Champaigne to portray him!†   (source)
  • Only an insane contortion of spelling could portray his lyric whine, his mangled consonants.†   (source)
  • The feature film portrayed a brave young Yankee who conquered a South American republic.†   (source)
  • It had a picture that portrayed the devilfish in question.†   (source)
  • Authors, as a rule, attempt to select and portray types rarely met with in their entirety, but these types are nevertheless more real than real life itself.†   (source)
  • Would he not betray himself an alien cynic who should otherwise portray Main Street, or distress the citizens by speculating whether there may not be other faiths?†   (source)
  • They were in the main reduced copies of ancient marbles, and comprised divinities of a very different character from those the girl was accustomed to see portrayed, among them being a Venus of standard pattern, a Diana, and, of the other sex, Apollo, Bacchus, and Mars.†   (source)
  • His dulled senses wished him to swoon and he opposed them stubbornly, his mind portraying unknown dangers and mutilations if he should fall upon the field.†   (source)
  • The HISPANIOLA, in that unbroken mirror, was exactly portrayed from the truck to the waterline, the Jolly Roger hanging from her peak.†   (source)
  • As my finger tips trace line and curve, they discover the thought and emotion which the artist has portrayed.†   (source)
  • And in this was portrayed the victory of the spirit over the flesh, the indomitability and moral grandeur of the soul that knows no restriction and rises above time and space and matter with a surety and invincibleness born of nothing else than eternity and immortality.†   (source)
  • He held out a newspaper clipping in which, above a pen-and-ink caricature portraying him with large mustached head on a tiny body, was the headline: DOC PICKERBAUGH BANNER BOOSTER OF EVANGELINE COUNTY LEADS BIG GO-TO-CHURCH DEMONSTRATION HERE Pickerbaugh looked it over, reflecting, "That was a dandy meeting!†   (source)
  • The sheet of paper portraying the depths of the sea presented a shiny surface under the light of a bull's-eye lamp lashed to a stanchion, a surface as level and smooth as the glimmering surface of the waters.†   (source)
  • He chuckled with immense, moist-eyed sentimentality at interludes portraying puppies, kittens, and chubby babies; and he wept at deathbeds and old mothers being patient in mortgaged cottages.†   (source)
  • I began gradually to realise that Francoise's kindness, her compunction, the sum total of her virtues concealed many of these back-kitchen tragedies, just as history reveals to us that the reigns of the kings and queens who are portrayed as kneeling with clasped hands in the windows of churches, were stained by oppression and bloodshed.†   (source)
  • He believed he would recognize the distinctive and remarkable landmarks Venters had portrayed, and he was certain that he had not yet come upon one of them.†   (source)
  • And he told them about a hardened criminal, a mass murderer, the sort of man prosecutors loved to portray in their closing arguments as a "brute" and a "beast in human form."†   (source)
  • "I plead with you," he said, "whoever you may be, provided that you care about the truth; but most of all I plead with working-man, with those to whom the evils I portray are not mere matters of sentiment, to be dallied and toyed with, and then perhaps put aside and forgotten—to whom they are the grim and relentless realities of the daily grind, the chains upon their limbs, the lash upon their backs, the iron in their souls.†   (source)
  • But he had a feeling that life was to be lived rather than portrayed, and he wanted to search out the various experiences of it and wring from each moment all the emotion that it offered.†   (source)
  • He could have enjoyed portraying to uninitiated listeners various scenes at which he had been a witness or ably discussing the processes of war with other proved men.†   (source)
  • If anyone had portrayed her to him as she was, or rather as she had been for so long with himself, but had substituted some other man, he would have been distressed, for such a portrait would have struck him as lifelike.†   (source)
  • To those who have never wavered in conscience, the predicament of the individual whose mind is less strongly constituted and who trembles in the balance between duty and desire is scarcely appreciable, unless graphically portrayed.†   (source)
  • Their favorite motion-picture theater was the Chateau, which held three thousand spectators and had an orchestra of fifty pieces which played Arrangements from the Operas and suites portraying a Day on the Farm, or a Four-alarm Fire.†   (source)
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