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to depict (represent or describe in a particular way)or:
to act the character of
- She portrayed a struggling artist in the movie.
- When Chris visited with Kris Gillmer, he frequently railed against Walt and Billie, portraying them as unreasonable tyrants.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- The way the narrators portray Egyptian magic is also supported by archaeological evidence.Rick Riordan -- The Red Pyramid
- It's an ending that continues to elude some of the individuals portrayed in the story.Joshua Davis -- Spare Parts
- But your legends portray me as a damsel who waited in a tower with a magic necklace that would help the heroic prince.Sarah J. Maas -- Throne of Glass
- They thought I had portrayed their business in an unfavorable light, which was true.Michael Pollan -- The Omnivore's Dilemma
- But what human language can adequately portray that astonishment, that horror which possessed me at the spectacle then presented to view?Edgar Allan Poe -- William Wilson
- Here, indeed, is portrayed with graphic touch the final all-engulfing cataclysm.Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
- It wasn't hard for her to portray Ammu as the person actually responsible for Sophie Mors death.Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
- It was thus a terrible thing for this lady to hear the painter speak of his desire to portray even his young bride.Edgar Allan Poe -- MS. Found in a Bottle
- As my finger tips trace line and curve, they discover the thought and emotion which the artist has portrayed.Helen Keller -- Story of My Life
- People are portrayed precisely as they are.Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
- I was also convinced that something as fun as deer hunting should never be portrayed as being something bland.Willie & Korie Robertson -- The Duck Commander Family
- I told her Phillip is not the man he portrayed himself to be.Jaycee Lee Dugard -- A Stolen Life
- The very newspaper that the actor had once hoped would print the letter explaining his actions is instead portraying him as an abomination.Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
- That was how life's storm cast you up on my shore, O my pride, that is how I'll portray you.Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
- I have, however, felt bound to portray the shadow which, alike in the west and in the east, falls upon the world.Winston Churchill -- Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech
- I have felt bound to portray the shadow which, alike in the west and in the east, falls upon the world.Winston Churchill -- Churchill's Sinews of Peace Speech
- I remember one where a little male child punched a bully, and that was portrayed as being the right thing to do.Stephenie Meyer -- The Host
- Behind her on the wall hung a large tapestry that portrayed a meeting in some vanished landscape between two horsemen on a road.Cormac McCarthy -- All the Pretty Horses
portraying = describing
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