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Were you playing up or, on the flip side, shying away from portraying a romantic attraction?

Or one portraying the former KGB officer as a superhero surrounded by doves?

There's a huge difference between portraying these young women as relatable and making them seem unremarkable.

Do you feel they did an ample job of portraying his troubled later years—in particular, the violence towards women?

What goes into portraying one of the most terrifying villains on TV?

Then they both looked at another miniature portraying him riding one lamb, while he was decking another with ribbons.

Was it necessary to glorify his acts, then it was done by portraying him as Cyrus or Alexander.

We have studiously avoided portraying fashionable life according to the vulgar notions, whether depreciatory or panegyrical.

He is not experimenting; he is not speaking of theories; he is portraying to us what was his everyday life.

For a long time they continued to be favourite secondary themes, introduced in portraying the destiny of heroes.

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On this page you'll find 56 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to portraying, such as: characterizing, defining, delineating, depicting, describing, and exhibiting.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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