"broad portrayal" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are describing something in an expansive or general manner. For example, "The director's film offered a broad portrayal of modern life."
The visceral, lived-in feel helped earn "Wake in Fright" a nomination for the Palme d'Or at Cannes, but despite critical appreciation for its broad portrayals, the film did not attract large audiences in its limited theatrical runs at home and, or, under the title "Outback," in the United States.
But Ms. Gless, 66, is much too young and vital to be playing a character who is probably 20 years older (Hannah and Rachel were childhood friends in the 1920s, before Rachel married and had children.) Her broad, hammy portrayal of a free-spirited butch lesbian bridling against authority conveys the same punchy heartiness she brought to Debbie Novotny, the mother of a gay son in "Queer as Folk".
When Ricky Gervais's comedy pilot Derek (Channel 4) aired last spring it drew a fair amount of flak for what many considered a broad and offensive portrayal of people with mental health problems.
"Women's lives consist of sensations and emotions that don't abide by a neat three-act structure and it is exciting to see a broader spectrum of portrayals that show this messy, unpleasant, and unglamorous side of womanhood".
In this week's magazine, Emily Nussbaum reviews Comedy Central's new series "Broad City," a raunchy, crackpot portrayal of millennial slackers from the friends and comedy… "Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures," written by Kate DiCamillo and illustrated by K. G. Campbell, has won this year's Newbery Medal.
Broader still was Louis Dall'Ava's portrayal of Pooh-Bah as a roly-poly in makeup reminiscent of that worn by the rock band Kiss.
Kyra Sedgwick's portrayal of Brenda Leigh became broader, and her Southern accent more pronounced.
Firstly, this study included only newsprint media and is therefore not representative of the broader media's role in the portrayal of sexual health and BBV issues.
This is a busy town, but there's a leisureliness to Graham's portrayal of it, conveyed by broad white pages with soft-toned watercolors, that makes it very different from Richard Scarry's action-packed "Busytown" series.
It revealed that this portrayal is in line with broader domestic media coverage of LMIC health, with its narrow medical, geographic and ethical foci, and emphases on Australian participants and commentators as the principal actors through whom the medical tourism phenomenon is understood.
