The phrase "conventional portrayal" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a common or traditional depiction of something in writing or media. Example: The author's novel challenged conventional portrayals of romance and instead presented a feminist perspective on relationships.
Despite the conventional portrayal of "noble savages," the tragedy kept its place in the repertory of the Comédie-Française for almost a century.
Based on a rich cache of personal and business records, Curtis J. Evans's study of Daniel Pratt and his "Yankee" town in the heart of the Deep South challenges the conventional portrayal of the South as a premodern region hostile to industrialization and shows that, contrary to current popular thought, the South was not so markedly different from the North.
Vidya described her character as "an epitome of grey" and a departure from the conventional portrayal of women in cinema.
Feminist writer Martha Leslie Allen lauded the video, as well as Madonna, "for breaking free of the conventional portrayal of women yet again, and displaying their duality".
Cecily Brown's photographs often pun on conventional portrayals of male artists.
Neglected by conventional portrayals of this vast country nested at the heart of Sub-Saharan Africa, these stories reveal the complexities, ambiguities and challenges of living in a postcolonial nation marked by widespread conflict, political crises and economic collapse.
For example, there was a campaign for Body Shop in August 1997 called "Love your body," which generated considerable debate because it featured a Rubenesque model to challenge conventional portrayals of beauty.
In place of language and conventional character portrayal, which is also undermined, are other kinds of artifice.
Larbalestier's portrayal of magic as a curse is a refreshing alternative to the conventional depiction of young wizards as a lucky elite.
Predictably enough, the novel has been hailed as the black Bridget Jones, and it does bear loose similarities in its portrayal of the conventional female quest for the love of a good man and the realisation that self-acceptance and self-sufficiency are more important.
What is impressive about that book, and now its sequel The Twelve, is that there is nothing contemptuous about Cronin's approach; this is a formal exercise based on study and thought, but it has also a serious commitment to the virtues he has found in genre fiction – well-paced flurries of action and a deepened portrayal of the conventional emotions that too often become clichés.
