Sentence examples for portraying myself from inspiring English sources

"I'm certainly not portraying myself as a crusader," said Mr. Kohut, a Democrat.

I liked the idea of taking on a character and portraying myself in the guise of another.

In one of her knowing addresses to the reader, the narrator asks: "Are you imagining, as you read me, that I'm portraying myself?

"I'm not portraying myself as the voice of authority," said Mr. Zugazagoitia, 47. "I'm just embodying the art enthusiast asking the questions that you wouldn't usually ask the specialist, like 'Why is this good?

If, after listening to your pathetic account of how your Uber cab took a whole 10 minutes to arrive, I respond "first world problem", then I am aggressively staking out the moral high ground and portraying myself (almost certainly dishonestly) as someone who only ever worries about the plight of starving children.

For fear of portraying myself as some kind of international jetsetter, I should stress that the reality is more like playing an enormous pan-European game of Twister.

I'm not going to portray myself as a victim...

"I was not able to portray myself in the best possible light," he says.

I wish I hadn't portrayed myself as such a twat.

I'm not trying to portray myself as a nutcase, though.

"I have never in my life portrayed myself as a perfect man, but I am not the man that's being portrayed on the television," Bishop Long, 57, said.