portrayal

Examples of portraying

portraying

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

They became involved ultimately in portraying the kerugma as psychodrama.
While portraying complex and episodic themes, these projects paid close attention to contextual morphologies and continuities of figure, ground, edge and street.
The register's focus is on portraying certain signifiers as bearing a relation of simultaneous foundational identity and destructive incompatibility with their signifieds.
Photographs are not necessarily the best means of portraying biological material.
The recollection is no longer properly portraying what one has labeled or named.
Furthermore, portraying favelas as part of stable, traditional patron-client relationships is also largely incorrect.
The student composers are given the specific task of musically portraying each of the clubs.
Portraying accurately the world physically around them is a far more difficult task.
By so doing the archaeological enterprise can be accused of portraying identity groups as implausibly monolithic, homogeneous and unchangeable.
By finding capitalism nearly everywhere in the material record, historical archaeology risks portraying capitalism as dominating the social life of the recent past.
By portraying the ageing process in positive or negative terms, they can also reinforce or challenge cultural stereotypes of ageing.
The other approach to portraying emotion is an 'inner-to-outer ' process.
However, it is simplistic to speak of the mask portraying different emotions at different angles.
They are content with portraying a fragmented world riven with contradictions and violence.
The results show that extra emphasis was placed on portraying bilingual education as a failure and situating minority-language students as victims.
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