All 5 Uses
portray
in
Flags of Our Fathers
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- Death in battle was portrayed as an honor to the family and a transcendent act on the part of the individual.†
Chpt 3. *
- How could an unopposed forty-five-minute climb up a hill and a quiet flagraising be portrayed as a valiant fight to the death?†
Chpt 12.
- "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.†
Chpt 14.
- 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.†
Chpt 16.
- 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.†
Chpt 18.
Definitions:
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(1)
(portray) to depict (represent or describe in a particular way)
or:
to act the character of - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)