Portrayal is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PORTRAYAL in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of portraying
• a depiction of someone or something in a work of art or literature; a picture
• a description of someone or something in a particular way; a representation
• an instance of an actor playing a part in a film or play; a performance
• The act or process of portraying; description; delineation.
• a word picture of a person\'s appearance and character
• acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture
• a representation by picture or portraiture
• any likeness of a person, in any medium
• representation by drawing or painting etc
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act or process or an instance of portraying; representation

Words related to PORTRAYAL

portray12

Words that contain PORTRAYAL

portrayals15

How to use PORTRAYAL in a sentence

• Meantime, she could and did stem the flood of character portrayal by a suggestion of tennis.
• If the accuracy of historical narrative must not be looked for in them, their moral truth must be recognized in their portrayal of a people and an age.
• Nor has the aged master lost his cunning for the portrayal of divinely simple faces, superb limbs, masculine beauty, in the ideal persons of young men.
• The central purpose of a work of fiction is assuredly the portrayal of human passions.
• Aside from his portrayal of jewels in his numerous portraits, Holbein ranked as the master designer of jewels in his day.
• Nor is the dramatic use of this melancholy, again, open to the objections which would justly be made to the portrayal of an insanity which brought the hero to a tragic end.
• The portrayal of her charms made him fall in love with her granddaughter, though absent and distant.
• Scott, for example, appealed not only to those who relished romance and enjoyed excitement, but also to those who appreciated his honest portrayal of sturdy characters.
• But Reynolds is at his strongest in the portrayal of men.
• Alger is always at his best in the portrayal of life in New York City, and this story is among the best he has given our young readers.
• Preferring by an instinct such as the Greek artist possessed, the statuesque effects of repose to the portrayal of action, Raphael showed himself capable of both.
• A vivid yet delicate portrayal of characters in an old New England town.
• An accurate and informing portrayal of scenes, types, and conditions of the mining districts in modern Nevada.
• Yet the picture which is given to us of the composer when within a few months of his death is a vivid portrayal of the triumph of mind-force over physical weakness.
• You see in this picture, an exact portrayal of that which existed over four thousand years ago.
• The result was a very fair portrayal of the articles as they then appeared.
• Has he to write of the power of Spain? It is in the portrayal of the tyrant of Spain rather than the men who overcame Spain that his genius finds scope.
• Reflections upon the portrayal of personal character.
• In their portrayal of the manners of New Orleans they have many points of quiet satire and censure that betray a critical intelligence working seriously behind them.
• It is not the portrayal of the earthly, but an imaginary sacred landscape, which stood everywhere so alpine-like before their spirit.
• Lucius, the personage who tells the story, is regarded in some quarters as a portrayal of the author himself.
• No one except Jane Austen has surpassed him in this power of truthful portrayal, and he has the advantage of being practically of our own day.
• A clear portrayal of the physical characteristics of Palestine and of the potent influences which that land has exerted throughout the ages upon its inhabitants.
• And yet, despite this frantic portrayal of terror, America decided for war.
• One dreary scene after another is unfolded, and the action never reaches the dignity of tragedy nor the depth of pathos which should be awakened by the portrayal of suffering.
• Through Beethoven he first learned what a power music possesses in the portrayal of the emotions and passions.
• Wagner is sometimes credited with having originated this method for the portrayal of celestial music.
• The suffering depicted was so awful that I cannot now understand how I could have endured looking upon its portrayal.
• His experience was a dramatic and tragic portrayal of the position into which every city forces its police.
• The writer of fiction had not yet turned his attention to the delineation of character, to the study of complex social questions, to the portrayal of actual life.

Similar words containing PORTRAY without suffix al

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