Sentence examples for intent to portray from inspiring English sources

There was no intent to portray Mr. Zimmerman unfairly.

But Mr. Sarkozy also seems to have a domestic intent — to portray the Socialists as fiscally irresponsible and spendthrift.

"From our side, we didn't have a strong intent to portray relationships as a theme of our games.

With primary elections being held in several states on Tuesday, Republican Senate leaders seemed intent to portray Democrats as growing the federal government.

Lucan, Appian, Josephus, Dio, Suetonius, Plutarch — the poets, historians and biographers who initially depicted Cleopatra were mostly Roman and all male, writing, for the most part, a century or more after her death with the intent to portray her reign as little more than a sustained striptease.

The actors' intent was to portray 18th-century gentlemen taking snuff, not cocaine.

The intent was to portray Senator McCain as in the pocket of lobbyists.

Because "we want to be clever and fun, but we don't want to go over the top," he added, the intent is to portray her as "your grandmother being a straight talker".

Breckin told the Irish Independent the intent was to portray realistic scenes in the film: "We wanted it as realistic as possible in terms of young people having fun.

The intent may be to portray archetypes, human or mythological, especially in shadow and puppet theatre and in masked dances and plays.

Even before the first shots were fired, Europe's statesmen were intent on weaving narratives designed to portray themselves as innocents responding to rival predatory aggressors.