Sentence examples for example to portray from inspiring English sources

It attempts, for example, to portray her father — a frustrated, angry, and often frightening man — as an ultimately lovable curmudgeon.

It suits Russia's Vladimir Putin and Israel's Ariel Sharon, for example, to portray their battles with Chechen and Palestinian terrorists as part of a global struggle; but these and many other campaigns involve mainly local issues.

The computer-generated illustrations, by Markley Boyer, are aptly called "visualizations," and are paired with photos of the contemporary real thing: for example, to portray the red-maple swamp postulated to have been where the ESPN Zone stands in Times Square today, Sanderson photographed a red-maple swamp in Orange County, some 40 miles north.

But even on Earth, different cultures cannot necessarily agree on the meaning of a picture or, for example, how to portray a human being.

And although European countries should indeed refuse to countenance certain cultural practices — polygamy, "honor killings," and anti-Semitic teachings, for example — Fallaci tends to portray the worst practices of Islamic fundamentalists as representative of all Muslims.

But Dr. Gingrey, following Mr. Barr's example, is trying to portray Mr. Kahn, formerly of the wealthy Buckhead section of Atlanta, as an interloper in farm country trying to buy a seat in Congress.

Several examples are shown to portray the lack of graphical indicators on executable diagrams, forcing the user to manually identify illogical relationships, and rerun the simulation until it succeeds in running to completion; this is a process that can be very time consuming as a result of user error.

Zipcar, for example, has long tried to portray itself as part of a young, hip lifestyle, calling its members Zipsters and promoting itself through a Twitter hashtag, #thatswhereiroll.

And the speech was just the latest example of his efforts to portray himself as leader willing to reach across party lines.

Matthew Henry wrote in the book Leaving Springfield that this episode is "perhaps the best" example of an attempt to portray an actual gay lifestyle on the show.

Watch videos of the person you want to be, or who has a trait you want to portray, for example if you wanted to be Dr. Walter Bishop from a TV show called Fringe, watch the TV show a few times and look up interviews with the actor.