Example sentences for: portrayals

How can you use “portrayals” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • You might think that such portrayals teach the false lesson that violence doesn't have real effects.

  • They say wrenching portrayals by Emily Skinner and Alice Ripley set "a new standard for crackerjack Broadway teamwork" (Ben Brantley, the New York Times ). Others call the score, by Dreamgirls writer Henry Krieger, un-catchy and uneven.

  • The forays into science fiction are said to have "the unfortunate effect of liberating all [Vidal's] worst artistic impulses" (James Bowman, the Wall Street Journal ). Vidal does win praise for caustic portrayals of dead presidents--with all the "freaks and foibles"--of the sort he has brought to his other historical fiction (Christopher Benfey, the New York Times Book Review ).

  • In section two, we will argue that it is unhelpful and misleading to portray EBM as a paradigm shift and that such portrayals have polarized the debate in an unfortunate way.

  • Or maybe not so unified, since, although I still don't agree with you about Miramax, I see that I agree even less with myself, in that I don't actually think that the political protests of Catholic, feminist, and gay-rights organizations regarding their portrayals by the mass media are really of comparable weight, seeing as only one of these special interests is allied with an extraordinarily wealthy institution with one of the most coherent and cooperative global network of outlets in history.


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