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Example sentences for: portrayal

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A minority praises Jeremy Irons' portrayal of Humbert Humbert--the middle-age professor obsessed with his adolescent stepdaughter--as sufficiently smarmy, and call the film "rich beyond what anyone could have expected" (Caryn James, the New York Times ). (Read Louis Menand's review in Slate .)
Never mind that the movie had been out for months and that a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination had already been awarded for the portrayal of the female character.
The self-deprecating, nonpolitical portrayal earns him advance exposure with what would be a hard-to-reach constituency if he ran for president in 2000.
Reviewers delight in Broomfield's portrayal of Love as a violent control freak.
Small wonder that Asian-Americans have protested the tenor of the Lippo reportage and the portrayal of Asian-Americans as people with divided loyalties.