portrayal

noun por·tray·al \ pȯr-ˈtrā(-ə)l , pər- \

|Updated on: 20 Jul 2018

Examples: portrayal in a Sentence

Definition of portrayal

1 : the act or process or an instance of portraying : representation

2 : portrait

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Examples of portrayal in a Sentence

his novel presents a moving portrayal of a woman searching for personal fulfillment and happiness

Recent Examples of portrayal from the Web

The portrayal of addicts as pathological shapes everything from our drug policy to our coke rap.

— josie duffy rice, The Atlantic, "The Gospel According to Pusha T," 12 July 2018
Ettel can be seen ducking and dodging the camera, true to Strong’s portrayal in the parody.

— refinery29.com, "Cecily Strong Used Instagram To Take Down #PermitPatty," 24 June 2018
The portrayal of these as stories of love strikes me as mislabeled.

— New York Times, "Readers Respond to the 6.10.18 Issue," 21 June 2018
The portrayals of her as a lackey of big business bugged Breed, who first won a supervisor's seat in 2012.

— janie har, The Christian Science Monitor, "First African-American woman mayor ready to lead San Francisco," 14 June 2018
These young people had never accepted the official portrayal of the United States as the Great Satan; many dreamed of being able to study or work there.

— Time, "'The Americans Cannot Be Trusted.' How Iran Is Reacting to Trump's Decision to Quit Nuclear Deal," 9 May 2018
Denizens of the tech landscape are realizing there’s a depressing amount of truth in their embarrassing portrayal on Silicon Valley as soulless, vapid, greedy, socially awkward opportunists.

— adam lashinsky, Fortune, "Silicon Valley's Schizophrenic Feelings," 26 Apr. 2018
Disney Channel fans will remember Brown’s portrayal as Eddie Thomas in That’s So Raven, which originally ran from 2003 to 2007, as well as his work as Sticky Webb in the network’s animated show The Proud Family.

— dave quinn, PEOPLE.com, "Former Disney Star Orlando Brown Arrested in His Underwear for an Outstanding Warrant: Report," 14 Apr. 2018
Other Twitter users were pretty fed up with how people consistently mess up the portrayal of Beyoncé as a wax figure as well as in other media representations.

— emily wang, Teen Vogue, "Another Beyoncé Wax Figure Faces Backlash," 13 Feb. 2018

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