Sentence examples for portray first from inspiring English sources

According to Mark Crispin Miller, how do the networks' arguments not accurately portray First Amendment guarantees?

It seems unlikely that we will evolve any time soon out of our propensity to link faces to whichever fictional characters we see them portray first, and avoid the mental abruption caused by their persistent habit of taking on other jobs just because they want to eat.

Given his obstacles, he would almost certainly try to portray third place as a big win, and a second place showing as nothing short of an upset.

The festivities begin with a cloying segment in which the adult actors portray fourth graders performing an unorthodox Christmas pageant in a small town in Menard County, Ill., where Lincoln spent his early adulthood.

Later the same month StarWars.com said Andy Serkis would play Supreme Leader Snoke, and in July, Domhnall Gleeson was revealed at San Diego Comic Con to be portraying First Order villain General Hux.

Edwards was anxious about how he would be portrayed – first he feared that Coogan would turn him into a buffoon, then he worried that if a world-class performer did the jumps for him, he would look too good.

In 2013, Fonda had a small role in The Butler, portraying First Lady Nancy Reagan.

Chandra Wilson portrayed fifth-year resident in general surgery, Miranda Bailey, the resident in charge of the five interns.

Amelia Jones has written that the post-feminist texts which emerged in the 1980s and 1990s portrayed second-wave feminism as a monolithic entity.

Crucially, it aims to portray Tom first as a son, a brother and a man with opinions and interests, and second as someone with a learning disability.

It hardly seems accidental that Mr. von Trier chose her to portray the first of his heroines willing or able to take revenge on her would-be destroyers.