Sentence examples for portraying something from inspiring English sources

Before Checkpoint I wasn't a political person, I was just portraying something important, being honest.

There have been problems with finance, with finding distributors, in portraying something as dull as the cyberworld that Snowden inhabits.

"Timekeeper" is one way of portraying something we all know about time: it is not just a counting system that marks the passing of days.

The actors in these series do not have the disabilities they're portraying, something also true of Kevin McHale (Artie on "Glee," D J Qualls (Billy on "Legit") and others.

The British approach to Chekhov can sometimes be unduly literal, genteel and cloying, but it is possible to err in the opposite direction: overinterpreting, striving for effect at the expense of the text, privileging metaphor over the notion that the author is portraying something approximating to real life.

Engadget just got their hands on the above shot, purportedly portraying something called the Motorola MOTOSPLIT.

I sought to portray something that felt less contrived.

To express the way I feel or portray something and not have that pressure.

"I just found it strange and draining that American television chose never to portray something that one in four women in America actually does," says Rhimes.

Animals, playing cards, seasons: in all three items in the "Just for Fun" program at New York City Ballet on Friday, dancers continually portrayed something other than themselves.

These new visions may "portray something or someone other than the dreamer as victim," and they won't necessarily seem like nightmares.