Sentence examples for portrayed as though from inspiring English sources

Sex is often portrayed as though, because you've had sex, your sex partner will know how you're feeling and respond perfectly to every situation in which you find yourselves".

"Belle Halein, Eau de Voilette," a photograph by Man Ray of Marcel Duchamp wearing a wig, dressed as a woman and portrayed as though he were the image for a perfume bottle label — an emblem of Dadaist fun — was a coveted work.

"It is certainly being portrayed as though it is sinister," Mr Ball told the BBC.

It was portrayed as though the branches all act independently from one another in order to prevent the abuse of power.

"I think, especially at the beginning of this conflict, it was often portrayed as though it was the Assads and their military against the people.

In the play the lovers are portrayed as though they were French: the character Floria Tosca is closely modelled on Bernhardt's personality, while her lover Cavaradossi, of Roman descent, is born in Paris.

I doubt the likes of the Daily Mail's Tim Shipman could be portrayed as Ed Miliband outriders, though: "Could this Tory ad be any worse, even if it said: 'Dance, drink and screw, because there's nothing else to do?'" he asked.

This view extends to the sexual arena where Salander is generally not portrayed as sexy, though she isn't sexless either.

Successive French government inquiries concluded urban riots in 2005, though portrayed as a Muslim "rising" by some commentators overseas, had no religious component and, though French citizens continued to make their way to Afghanistan or Iraq to fight, and sometimes die there, they were still few in number.

Though portrayed as happy and carefree, the Fraggles enforce a strict caste system on their own personal offshore haven.

Though portrayed as a victim, Doctor Stockmann, like all Ibsen's idealistic truth-tellers after Brand, also carries within him a deep strain of destructiveness.