Sentence examples for Compellingly portrayed from inspiring English sources

Despite – or perhaps because of – a reforming 60s mayor, the white, liberal Jerry Cavanagh, compellingly portrayed here as one of a succession of charismatic but seemingly doomed civic leaders, African-American grievances had reached boiling point.

Mr. Eifman questionably attributes her breakdown to disappointments in love, first with a KGB agent (Ivan Kozlov) then with a partner, compellingly portrayed by Mr. Smekalov, who is revealed to be gay.

He keeps spurning both basic and profound needs for reasons that aren't compellingly portrayed.

Their fallacy was concisely, compellingly portrayed to us all in the vivid storytelling of J.K. Rowling.

Even more than in that show — which portrayed the down side of being an emperor in wicked old Rome — Mr. Jacobi compellingly makes the case here that you really, really don't want to be a royal.

Elizabeth I has been portrayed by lots of actors over the years, but the giant publicity posters for the series were still compellingly weird: Duff looked like a Gorgon, thin-skinned and livid, and says she found the role terrifying.

While Penn's portrait of the king himself conjures up a figure as compellingly unpleasant as a compound of Hannibal Lecter and Bernard Madoff, the strength of this outstanding book lies in his ability to breathe life into the sorts of ceremonious scenes of court life portrayed in the books of hours belonging to Henry's great rivals on the Continent.

Whites are portrayed badly.

John Wayne portrayed Mr. Adair.

It's not portrayed realistically".

And not what was portrayed.