Sentence examples for effective portrayal from inspiring English sources

Ginger Costa Jackson brought a flirtatious insouciance to her effective portrayal of Lola.

Exogene is both disorienting and an effective portrayal of a protagonist with a broken mind.

James Morris sounded somewhat frayed but offered an effective portrayal of the frail Timur.

By contrast and in a brilliantly effective portrayal, John Gardner as Hilarion (Albrecht's rival) was a properly intrusive force on Saturday.

In what is going to become a familiar scene, Philip Seymour Hoffman, left, made a lap and picked up the best actor award for his incredibly mannered, incredibly effective portrayal of Truman Capote.

By its rejection of conventional classical imagery and its effective portrayal of Marlborough's military genius, it was an immediate success that perfectly expressed the nation's great hour of victory.

"I'd say it's one of the most effective portrayals of that decade, it's very accurate, very realistic – and that's very brave.

I wonder now about the system of image multiplicity, about how some of the most effective portrayals of Bush come not through footage of the former President himself but through parodies of him, about the truth we discover in something when there are multiple layers between ourselves and it, and its caricatures are what seem truest.

Film Threat called her portrayal "effective at projecting scepticism and, eventually, dawning horror".

And it will enhance the country's security by undermining Al Qaeda's most effective recruiting theme — its portrayal of the United States as a dishonorable superpower that sanctions the type of abuses so graphically captured in the images from Abu Ghraib.

Joseph McKenna, in striking makeup, has opted for the Frankenstein approach, with a lumbering, robotic physicality and monotone speech; his voice has an effective, haunting quality and the portrayal is reasonable enough.