portrayal

portray | American Dictionary

portray
verb[ T ]
us/pɔrˈtreɪ, poʊr-/
to represent or describe someone or something in a book, movie, etc.:
The book portrayed him as somebody who was uncaring, even bigoted.
The writer portrays life in a working-class community at the turn of the century.
To portray is also to act the part of someone in a movie or play:
Michael Douglas portrays the president of the United States.

portrayal

noun[ C ]us/pɔrˈtreɪ·əl, poʊr-/
A lot of people felt the film wasn’t quite an accurate portrayal.

Examples of portray

portray
Hence, she is frequently portrayed as the 'backbone' of the household.
His continual agitation is portrayed by the constant nervous repetitions, but also by the rhythm of this canon, which grates against the written metre.
The opportunity exploitation model portrays this unrest as actually strengthening the government's grip on power and minimizing any diversionary incentive.
Children are at once portrayed as wilful 'tearaways' that terrorise teachers, communities and each other and as the innocent 'victims' of 'feckless', irresponsible parents.
They ignored the crucial questions of who is describing the events and why they are portrayed in the manner that was chosen by the authors.
In our own professional literature however, the situation is often portrayed as radiographers achieving emancipation from medical control and establishing new heights of professional autonomy.
In some accounts normativity in the social sphere is portrayed as initially unrelated to the formal law.
Too often, venue shopping is portrayed as a relatively straightforward strategic endeavor that is purely instrumental in nature.
In contrast, she always portrays people of the higher social classes as different.
Physicians may strike for patient welfare reasons and yet be successfully portrayed by their opponents as seeking only increased physician benefits.
A neo-liberal and technocratic ideology portrays these actors as rational and entrepreneurial agents responding to local technical or market exigencies.
The spectacle, as typically portrayed, is unspeakably brutal and inhumane.
Profit, as we shall see, was portrayed either as secondary or as corrupting.
They portrayed the desire for profit as one of the vices corrupting the commonwealth.
The register's focus is on portraying certain signifiers as bearing a relation of simultaneous foundational identity and destructive incompatibility with their signifieds.
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