Sentence examples for long portrayed from inspiring English sources

AUTOMAKERS have long portrayed themselves as building cars for everyday American families.

The Bush administration has long portrayed the fight as part of a broader battle against Islamic terrorists.

ITALY, long portrayed as a veritable ocean of red wine, is turning out to be just as awash in whites.

The government has long portrayed the uprising, which began as a peaceful protest movement, as fueled by foreign-driven Muslim extremism.

And while that received wisdom was utterly wrong, popular history has long portrayed the early colonial era as a meeting of civilized Europeans and savage, if noble, Indians.

They have long portrayed him as a nutcase who invented the naked-shorting problem to distract attention from Overstock's chronic underperformance.

She and Jonathon Boogie Long portray two homeless musicians who join up with a runaway rapper (Pryce) to help an elder bluesman raise the money he needs to save his comatose wife and their repossessed blues club.

"A Case Of You" finds Long portraying a Brooklyn writer who falls for Evan Rachel Wood's barista character and takes to some traditional Facebook stalking to impress her by feigning interest in her pastimes.

The painting I looked at the longest portrayed a young, modern family.

In the 1960s, she shocked the primate research world with the discoveries that humankind's closest relative--long portrayed as primitive plant eaters--uses tools and hunts other monkeys for meat.

The trial also revealed evidence that tended to counter long-held assumptions about Mr. bin Laden's followers, who have long been portrayed as marching in ideological lock step, ready to pay any price, including death, for his cause.