Sentence examples for essentially portrays from inspiring English sources

Mr. Hacker's book essentially portrays the modern woman as a kind of superhero soldiering through a world increasingly marked by male inadequacy.

Pinker is under no obligation to credit Judaism or Christianity with any particular role in the story he's telling, but a book that essentially portrays European civilization as a kind of moral vanguard for humanity should at least address the possibility that this distinctive turn away from violence was influenced by the West's distinctive religious heritage.

William D. Powers, the state Republican chairman, whose operation essentially portrayed Mrs. Clinton as a handmaiden to terrorism?

The New Jersey governor needled Rubio over his relative inexperience, essentially portraying the first-term senator as a scripted, empty suit married to the same set of talking points.

Bhaichand Patel notes that Khan, who had a background in the sport playing for his university's hockey team, essentially portrayed himself as a "cosmopolitan, liberal, Indian Muslim".

He again seemed unwilling to acknowledge that Obama is now the President, essentially portraying him as no different from any another "politician" and therefore deserving of the same exact treatment.

The Houthis, who belong to the Zaydi Shia sect, are (at least nominally) backed by Iran, so the Saudi-led campaign has essentially been portrayed as a Sunni pushback against Iranian regional power.

But portraying essentially decent people with complexity and charm is no simple task.

Hagner said he thinks the Republicans playing up Moore's anti-abortion stance are essentially trying to portray him as just an average Republican.

The media historian Brian McFarlane writes that, on film, Formby portrayed "essentially gormless incompetents, aspiring to various kinds of professional success ... and even more improbably to a middle-class girlfriend, usually in the clutches of some caddish type with a moustache.

The movie has its funny moments and a good many funny lines ("If you want bad sex," Clive promises Kaisa, "you've come to the right man"), but the journey that it portrays is essentially that of a young woman discovering herself in the mirror of her drunken father and dying mother.