self-portrayal
Example Sentences
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The press feasted on Duesberg’s self-portrayal as the victim of ostracism arising from professional jealousies — a target of cancel culture before that was a thing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2026
What unites them is the desire to call B.S. on the idyllic self-portrayal of conservative Christian influencers.
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2024
Yet his version of events ignores or elides many of the crucial details previously made public, many of which challenge his self-portrayal as wronged and misunderstood.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 19, 2021
Carrie’s awkward, halting and seemingly honest self-portrayal as a lost child turned mother looked like a screen test — and it was a great performance.
From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2017
The whole purports to convey in the form of discourse the prophetic message of Zarathustra, the hermit sage, an idealized self-portrayal of the author.
From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Heller, Otto
