portrayal

Examples of portrayed

portrayed

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Physicians may strike for patient welfare reasons and yet be successfully portrayed by their opponents as seeking only increased physician benefits.
Some performers specialised in a single character-type, while others portrayed a range of characters.
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.
They had been portrayed as students who demonstrated behavioural problems in their music classrooms, displaying neither creative nor general music ability.
For example, newspapers usually portrayed the 'unemployed poor' as idle and potentially dangerous.
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.
For instance, while higher authorities were portrayed with signs of respect, encomenderos were usually represented with negative connotations.
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.
Third, they argue that class divisions among migrants and among established residents suggest that neither group is as homogenous as they are portrayed to be.
Too often, venue shopping is portrayed as a relatively straightforward strategic endeavor that is purely instrumental in nature.
The spectacle, as typically portrayed, is unspeakably brutal and inhumane.
Profit, as we shall see, was portrayed either as secondary or as corrupting.
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