In this setting, he sustained until the end his ability to make portrayals of many of the people and animals who mattered to him (the one still on the easel, Portrait of a Hound), paintings that face-to-face are all-consuming and oddly liberating.
The first is Foxx as athlete: making his portrayal of Ray Charles authentic was 'like sticking the landing after the floor exercise'.
Final Fantasy Xs depiction of Spira set a new standard with the traversing of real-time 3D environments instead of an overworld map, making the portrayal of Spira a pioneer in 3-D RPG maps.
He makes his portrayal distinctly literary.
But she makes the portrayal work on her own terms.
Unfortunately, Brink's awareness of his own "bloody cheek" does not make his portrayal of Philida any less troubling.
The signs of aging on her face only made her portrayal more tragic, as if the audience saw through to the truth that the dazzled characters onstage missed.
The masks also helped to make the portrayal of female characters by male actors more plausible, as well as to make the facial features clearly discernible by the large audience.
Their lives were pinched and prosaic, filled with the chores of cooking and washing and ironing, but it's Wainright's refusal to romanticize that makes her portrayal so affecting.
Always musical, even in the mad scene in which her Giselle wandered visibly into another world, she made her portrayal of Giselle as a ghost, or wili, in Act II, a continuation of goodness personified.
The point in this vernacular poem is to get across a convincing picture of a personality, or philosophy of life, and to make the portrayal as natural as possible.
