He (like his father) is one of the few actors to build a successful career out of portraying less-than-virtuous characters.
My brother I've portrayed less faithfully.
For all that, Mark is portrayed less as hateful than as hapless, and possibly doomed.
But if Manon's materialism is superbly portrayed, less convincing is her appetite for love.
The system, this time around, is portrayed less as a crucial tool for personal productivity than as a way to aid collaboration and team success.
Mexico portrays its pre-Hispanic history in heroic terms, while demonizing Spanish conquistadors such as Hernán Cortés, but modern day indigenous peoples are portrayed less glowingly – if they are portrayed at all.
Others are portrayed less flatteringly, such as the publicity-seeking Chris Dodd, a key lawmaker, and Dick Fuld, Lehman's delusional boss.Was letting Mr Fuld's firm fail Mr Paulson's big mistake?
During his lifetime Gould was often portrayed less as a real person than a collection of tics — perhaps even more so in the many books and films about him that have been issued since his death.
In the movie, directed by John Schlesinger from a screenplay by Thomas Ropelewski, Madonna and Mr. Everett portray less exalted versions of themselves trading remarks that suggest a sharpened variant of their desultory banter in a recent Vanity Fair cover story.
He is being portrayed less flatteringly in a short documentary financed by former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, which alleges widespread human rights violations in Chechnya and accuses Kadyrov of having a personal army of up to 80,000 fighters and skimming off huge quantities of federal funds.
Martins's feelings for Schmidt do affect or determine much of what he does, but his choices and their outcomes are complex; and Schmidt herself is portrayed less as a beckoning femme fatale than as a wounded woman still loyal to her feelings for the charismatic Harry Lime.
