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por·tray·ing

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  1. depicting, depiction, portraying, portrayalnoun

    a representation by picture or portraiture

    Synonyms:
    line drawing, characterization, depicting, depiction, portraiture, characterisation, limning, portrait, word-painting, delineation, word picture, portrayal, enactment, picture, personation

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  1. List of paraphrases for "portraying":

    illustrating, describing

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#21407depicting
#23245illustrating
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#25922portrayal
#31397characterisation
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#43107portraiture

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  1. Anne Hathaway:

    It’s an obvious thing, you win an Oscar and you’re supposed to be happy. I didn’t feel that way. I felt wrong that I was standing there in a gown that cost more than some people are going to see in their lifetime, and winning an award for portraying pain that still felt very much a part of our collective experience as human beings, i tried to pretend that I was happy and I got called out on it, big time. That’s the truth and that’s what happened.

  2. Neil Parrott:

    The university should not let the complaints of a few students result in the cancellation of an important film honoring an American hero and accurately portraying the horrors of war.

  3. John Crist:

    ... The biggest hypocrite in all of this was me thatI was portraying a person on the Internet that I was not behaving like privately.

  4. Burgess Owens:

    Im so against anybody portraying that generation that didso much to raise such a great group of kidsto be looked at as hopeless and hapless, they would beput down and disgusted to be looked at as oppressed when we were victors.

  5. Janine Stichter:

    Aerie hit it right at a time when people were tiring of what Victoria's Secret and PINK were portraying as overtly sexy and really unattainable beauty standards.


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