portrayal

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The actor expressed her satisfaction that the story of Sarah and Hagar is given a positive portrayal since that’s not always been the case.

From Los Angeles Times

Curators say they’re looking at her oeuvre more closely now because her influence on younger artists keeps expanding, lately to those with disabilities who admire her raw, vulnerable portrayal of her own pain.

From The Wall Street Journal

And the cartoonish portrayal of combat using childlike blocky figures helps to sanitize gritty images of war, helping it to get past social media filters—and pushing it far beyond Iran’s borders.

From The Wall Street Journal

The judgments made by Ms. Heller-Nicholas and the many directors interviewed are concerned mainly with how a work figures into the history, portrayal and interpretation of women on screen.

From The Wall Street Journal

Sean Penn, Hollywood's eternal rebel, on Sunday won a third Oscar for his comic yet terrifying portrayal of an absurdly uptight soldier ashamed of his past in "One Battle After Another."

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