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por·tray·ing
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Princeton's WordNet
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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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#631 | picture | |
#5895 | portrait | |
#7544 | describing | |
#9475 | characterization | |
#16823 | enactment | |
#21407 | depicting | |
#23245 | illustrating | |
#25588 | depiction | |
#25922 | portrayal | |
#31397 | characterisation | |
#37013 | delineation | |
#38342 | portraying | |
#43107 | portraiture |
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I mean, he goes around portraying himself as this purist -- you know, Ted Cruz, the purist on immigration. But I was there two, three years ago, when he was passionately arguing at the committee that we needed to pass immigration reform and needed to bring people out of the shadows.
The truth is that Islamophobia pervades our culture, our politics and even policy decisions, leading politicians in the Republican Party routinely spout hateful rhetoric about a religion that includes a diverse group of more than a billion peaceful worshipers around the world. This includes falsely claiming Muslims want to replace the Constitution and implement Sharia law, portraying Muslims as inherently violent.
We envision this project as a celebration of Native American culture rather than portraying all the misery, there's a richness of cultural differences among the tribes. We tend to generalize and think of them as just a few tribes, but there's so much more.
We have seen history repeat where North Korea would declare to denuclearize, by portraying North Korea as a consolatory and forthcoming, only to turn around and avoid all international efforts towards peace, in light of how North Korea has behaved in the past, I believe it is important not to reward North Korea solely for agreeing to have a dialogue.
The Femlin’s this spontaneous, spunky, smart, mischievous, tiny little woman who sticks The Femlin in between places, the Femlin’s the life of the party … The Femlin has all of these wonderful characteristics, but The Femlin’s also imperious to society’s beliefs and restrictions. They do n’t apply to The Femlin … Society’s restrictions do n’t apply to any of us at all. We need to show society that women as a whole, we are imperious to those restrictions. That’s what The Femlin stands for. Even though I ’m on the cover, it’s me, but I ’m The Femlin. I am portraying what The Femlin stands for … It’s a homage to The Femlin and how Hugh Hefner in 2017 viewed women in society.
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