"true portrayal" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a realistic and accurate representation of someone or something. For example, "The movie offered a true portrayal of the historical events."
"But it's not necessarily a realistic or true portrayal.
It is finally a true portrayal of this complex relationship.
Although they were written by a woman, they gave a very true portrayal of a 13-year-old boy.
"It's a very honest and true portrayal of life in Britain and people are frightened of it".
It kicked-ass because of how it did it: A true portrayal of the original material - honest, vulgar, violent, bloody.
More important, says Oldroyd, it's not a gimmick, but a true portrayal of the warm-blooded emotions that are often forgotten in such stories.
He spoke disparagingly of Milan Kundera & his novel "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" saying that Kundera's books are not true portrayals of life under the Communists.
Lampedusa's Don Calogero preceded any Sciascia creation by nearly a decade, and still remains one of the truest portrayals of the genre, a "Mafioso avant la lettre," as Norman Lewis once wrote".We were the Leopards and Lions," Lampedusa's alter ego Don Fabrizio reflects: "those who'll take our place will be little jackals, hyenas".
If you have terrible taste in music, by all means go see it and maybe you'll be lucky enough to have a minor orgasm like the broad who sat in front of me did during on of the movie's too-true portrayals of Buckley's vocal shitshows.
The ad spread allows for a true (and gorgeous!) portrayal of how a dress would fit someone similar in size.
Amanda has also been applauded many times by real life military men and women for her true-to-life portrayal of a member of the Air Force.
