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Portrayal   /pɔrtrˈeɪəl/   Listen
Portrayal

noun
1.
A word picture of a person's appearance and character.  Synonyms: portrait, portraiture.
2.
Acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture.  Synonyms: characterization, enactment, personation.
3.
A representation by picture or portraiture.  Synonyms: depicting, depiction, portraying.
4.
Any likeness of a person, in any medium.  Synonym: portrait.
5.
Representation by drawing or painting etc.  Synonyms: delineation, depiction.






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"Portrayal" Quotes from Famous Books



... and brilliant piece of work in STRIFE is Galsworthy's portrayal of the mob, its fickleness, and lack of backbone. One moment they applaud old Thomas, who speaks of the power of God and religion and admonishes the men against rebellion; the next instant they are carried away by a walking delegate, who pleads the cause of ...
— Anarchism and Other Essays • Emma Goldman

... A relentless portrayal of the career of a man who comes under the influence of a beautiful but evil woman; how she lures him on and on, how he struggles, falls and rises, only to fall again into her net, make a story ...
— Friendship Village • Zona Gale

... then, consists in his portrayal of the social ideal of the French aristocracy in the twelfth century. So far as we know he was the first to create in the vulgar tongues a vast court, where men and women lived in conformity with the rules of courtesy, where the truth was told, where generosity was ...
— Four Arthurian Romances - "Erec et Enide", "Cliges", "Yvain", and "Lancelot" • Chretien de Troyes

... from one method to the other and strike crude discords of phrasing. Of course if you switch methods intelligently and of purpose, that is quite another matter. An abstract discussion may be enlivened by a concrete illustration. A concrete narrative or portrayal may be given weight and rationalized by generalization. Moreover many things lie on the borderland between the two domains and may properly be attached to either. Thus the abstraction is legitimate when you say or write: "A man wishes to acquire the comforts and luxuries, ...
— The Century Vocabulary Builder • Creever & Bachelor

... Kenny in a painter's smock intent upon a palette, vividly, whimsically, delightfully Kenny. There was tenderness and sympathy in Sid's portrayal. ...
— Kenny • Leona Dalrymple


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