portray
Sheen gave an uncanny portrayal of Tony Blair in "The Queen."
The artist's works were known for their accurate portrayal of the Old West.
They love the comic strip for its realistic portrayal of medieval times.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Representation in art & in general
anti-realism
anti-realist
Calvary
complementary
confederate
limn
mimesis
naturalistically
non-figurative
non-representational
portray
realism
realist
representation
representational
symbolic
symbolism
symbolization
ultrarealism
volumetric

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Cinema & theatre: acting, rehearsing & performing

Examples of portrayal

portrayal
Within what codes and context would those portrayals have been received in 1991?
It is founded on a crude portrayal of the eighteenth century as violent, drunken, corrupt and depraved.
Two interviewees are worth quoting for their expressive and infectious portrayals of their retirement roles.
The most significant aspect in the portrayal of marital status, however, is its stability throughout the films.
Access to monuments and portrayals on monuments in part defined social and power hierarchies.
Is this an accurate portrayal of the payoffs for formateurs or is it simply the result of some deficiency in the weighting scheme?
Perceptions of older people as a ' vulnerable group' were of course common in early thinking on ageing and persist in certain stereotypical media portrayals.
The portrayal of older people in the mass media influences the viewers' explicit and implicit attitudes and beliefs towards older people and old age.
They believed that the media's portrayal was often inaccurate and biased against genetic engineering in general.
Here the action lies not in the portrayal of events on stage but rather in the characters' investment in their individual stories.
It fostered reflection in the audience and avoided ' ' the emphatic flood which a realistic portrayal of the same tale and character might unloose.
Ageism is illustrated through the portrayal of older people as unattractive, asexual, or in failing mental or physical health.
The portrayal has lasted and still serves its purpose as an ideal of social harmony.
Although leaving scope for the designer, he suggests many details, often concerned with the convincing portrayal of the supernatural.
The letterwriter's portrayal of the monastery as ripped apart by factionalism is undoubtedly more accurate.
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