But my generation was transitionary -- black kids my age were still subjected to the same ill-informed portrayals of Africa and the lacking portrayals of prolific black astrophysicists, neurosurgeons and scholars.
For me his portrayal lacked depth.
Yet the Letter Scene was a scattered piece of acting and, over all, the portrayal lacked focus.
Lucia Cervoni, a mezzo-soprano, sang well as Cornelia, wife of the slain Pompey, though her portrayal lacked gravity.
However, his portrayal lacks the frisson of cruelty, the proud frustrated intelligence that makes Onegin so dangerous, and in the more climactic partnering of the action one mirror duet, the physical chemistry between him and Osipova doesn't feel comfortable.
Some praised it and deemed it a spectacle, while others believed it lacked profundity and portrayal of Cyrus' personality.
He was also critical of Matt Smith's Doctor, whose portrayal "lacked gravitas and conviction and was altogether too light-hearted".
Mulligan, who won plaudits for her heartrending rendition of "New York, New York" in Shame, is expected to bring a groundedness to the role that was lacking in Hepburn's gamine portrayal.
There's some sympathy, too, for the rotten Sergeant Troy, whose jilted-at-the-altar tear underwrites his anger with pathos – a quality notably lacking from Terence Stamp's 1960s portrayal.
Though his sins are never pardoned, Crabbe's portrayal of him isn't lacking sympathy: "a lost, lone man, so harassed and undone/Our gentle females, ever prompt to feel,/Perceived compassion on their anger steal".
