portrayal

In 1987, The Deer Hunter was hailed at the Moscow Film Festival as an important portrayal of the horrors of war.

But everything about the Hughes-Eldridge pairing militated against such a portrayal.

The police themselves do little to dispel or discourage this lionized portrayal.

The novel is a near perfect portrayal of the emotions of a young girl on the cusp of womanhood.

Others have found its portrayal of Southern life offensive, exploitative, or inaccurate.

Liszt, from whose book some of the above details are derived, completes his portrayal of Chopin by some characteristic touches.

The most complete literary portrayal of George Sand that has been handed down to us, however, is by Heine.

I know I have given a rose-colored account of him, yet some shadow belongs to the portrayal.

The other characters are all well drawn, and the play is an excellent portrayal of domestic life of seventy-five years ago.

It gave Mark Twain a chance to exercise two of his chief gifts—transcription and portrayal.