Example sentences for: portrayals

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

  • Either these portrayals are unacknowledged dramatic simulations, or the CIA spent a lot of time and money documenting its own inner workings.

  • 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.

  • But until we begin to distinguish among the different ways violence is portrayed, we can't begin to understand what those portrayals may do.

  • 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.

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


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