Sentence examples for explicit portrayal from inspiring English sources

At least some of the novel's success was due to its explicit portrayal of political corruption and police torture.

Yet his work largely eschewed religion itself, considering any explicit portrayal of Christianity bad for business in North Africa and Asia, where Walt hoped to market his animated films.

Clark, whose 1995 film Kids provoked similar concerns due to its explicit portrayal of teenage private lives, pointed out that much of his work had already been shown in France without any problems.

A habitat network is defined as a spatially explicit portrayal of environmental conditions across large landscapes that can be used to understand the status and trends of species of conservation concern, particularly in relation to how species' needs are met through management of habitat abundance and distribution.

The circulating libraries in England banned the book because of its explicit portrayal of the amorous pursuits of its hero.

Why? There's a huge debate going on about "sexualisation", but it is narrowly focused on explicit portrayals of sexuality in videos aimed at a young market.

What is odd is that there is really very little genuine horror here - except in a few photographs, and in the explicit portrayals, usually as medical teaching aids, of horrible diseases and tortures.

Now that explicit portrayals of feminine sexuality aren't automatically considered derogatory, Minter's work confronts another stigmatized medium of expression: the worlds of fashion and glamour.

Snoop was vilified for his explicit portrayals of street life during this era, and he acknowledged that he still resents unnamed preachers and singer Dionne Warwick for portraying him as "the worst black man ever created".

It featured an explicit depiction of Mr. Corzine's relationship with a former girlfriend, Carla Katz, who happens to be the head of a major state employees union, and, less sensationally, a portrayal of Mr. Forrester as gangster in the Edward G. Robinson mold.

Maya Angelou's first volume of her autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, was accused of being too explicit in its portrayal of rape and sexual abuse.