The Forbes piece portrays a sort of tragic figure.
It portrays a sort of end-of-the-world scenario, which is a favorite of ours if only because we'd love to live through such a scenario.
Joey is shown to be a bachelor and struggling actor, while Phoebe works as a masseuse and portrays a sort of "crazy" attribute to her personality based on her troubles as a child after her mother committed suicide.
Most—"Bridget Jones's Diary" and "Gosford Park", for example—portray a sort of theme-park Britain.
"#1 Record" portrayed "a sort of innocence," he said, "and with 'Radio City,' you have something that's a little more emotionally on edge and not as naïve.
Rodriguez broke into moviedom with the 2000 indie boxing drama "Girlfight," a role for which she packed on muscle and extensively trained to portray a sort of teen girl version of Rocky.
In her role as Ree Dolly, Lawrence portrayed a sort of mythic folk hero girl, determined to find a missing father who vanishes after some bad business in the Ozarks meth trade.
Cultural depictions have also created or reinforced misconceptions about dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, such as inaccurately and anachronistically portraying a sort of "prehistoric world" where many kinds of extinct animals (from the Permian animal Dimetrodon to mammoths and cavemen) lived together, and dinosaurs living lives of constant combat.
He is pushed by his immigrant father, Mike, a captain, or usher, at a casino in Las Vegas whom Agassi portrays as a sort of comic Caliban, tearing thick bouquets of black hair from his nose and hanging himself from a homemade noose to relieve chronic neck pain.
The anti-racist effort in the adventures of Tintin is portrayed as a sort of civilatory white man's burden — a knightly, gentlemanly missionary activity.
It, too, was a commemoration of Sept. 11, portrayed as a sort of gift to the people of New York, and in sheerly musical terms, it succeeded admirably, perhaps more so than either of the Vienna Philharmonic events.
