Sentence examples for portrays a nation from inspiring English sources

Over all, the poll portrays a nation torn by conflicting impulses and confusion.

Mario Vargas Llosa's The Feast Of The Goat portrays a nation of bystanders, complicit in decades of tyranny in the Dominican Republic.

Mr. Edwards has also put himself in the somewhat tricky position of being a wealthy lawyer from Georgetown -- that would be the neighborhood in Washington, not where he spoke today -- who portrays a nation divided along economic lines.

Pyongyang's media portray a nation beset by hostile forces, but unified in its devotion to its leader, Kim Jong-un.

But in a few memorable spreads, like "Portraying a Nation in Hard Times" and "Reformer With a Camera" — the balance works beautifully.

Mr. Choe's report portrayed a nation racked by chronic shortages of food and medicine, its economy in collapse and its health care system ruined.

A hundred ways with a neep may excite a few and depress many, but McNeill's use of quotation and description to portray a nation's food ways is artful and delightful.

Nevertheless, news reports portrayed a nation of inadvertent drug users — "a case of hidden mass medication of the unsuspecting public," as one member of Parliament was quoted as saying.

Now you see them, now you don't: a combination picture of two images appears to indicate that with the eyes of the world upon it, North Korea is not beyond applying a touch of media manipulation when portraying a nation in mourning.

The haphazard nature of the embassy episodes portray a nation in utter turmoil, and a government that is seeking to both placate angry mobs in the name of democracy while presumably fulfilling its international responsibilities.

Ever since the Lucky Dragon incident, America had been portrayed as a nation of "skunks, saber-rattlers, and warmongers," he complained in a meeting with the National Security Council.