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Example sentences for: portraying

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House prosecutors spent weeks portraying Clinton as Lewinsky's treacherous abuser.
Republicans have joined the media in portraying his impeachment as a devastating, permanent scar on his presidency.
It's not as if he was picked out of a rope line to play a round of Who Wants to Be a Campaign Accessory; he was a committed partisan duped into portraying no one in particular.
Yet critics insist on portraying gamblers as a pitiable class of suckers, enslaved by fantasies of unearned wealth.
The racial discrepancy of this casting choice doesn't bother me nearly as much as the fact that portraying Edgar Allen Poe as a guy with a high-pitched, breathless voice who has had a ton of plastic surgery would put such a completely different spin on what might have been the psychological issues behind the writing of those scary twisted stories that it just might be impossible to ever really enjoy them again.