All descriptions or portrayals of character are life-like, and the book has an indescribable appealing quality which wins sympathy and secures success.
In such portrayals it seems to me he is pre-eminently fine: one cannot understand the critics who see in such creations mere stock figures supplied by history not breathed upon with the breath of life.
Quite apart from our relish of his vividportrayals of life, we like his wayside chatting.
Portrayals of hypocrites, for instance, so truthfully and movingly artistic as to arouse an ecstatic state in the reader, become poetry.
But the portrayals of Sancho Panza, Falstaff and Parson Adams are poems.
First among these is a truth of which I have long been convinced; to wit, that when a seeming discordance arises between the portrayals of a canal, it is commonly not a case of mistake nor of change, but one of separate identity.
These pages will present portrayals of a large number of charming souls, with accounts of their happiest experiences.
Almost every sensational tale reeks with vulgar portrayals of it.
Agnes Grey contains simple and natural portrayals of governess life in the eighteen-forties; and the following Wildfell Hall, we may conjecture, is built from evolved incidents founded on hearsay and experience.
It is enough that Charlotte Bronte's private letters regarding Branwell are quite in agreement with her own harsh portrayals of him in her Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre.
For a week or two he frequented the local movies, but compared with past experiences he failed to find the production up to the announcements that the portrayals were stupendous and thrilling.
Davy gazed in awe at the old man, who in general appearance resembled the accepted portrayals of Santa Claus, but whose face was now seamed with lines of pain.
And by this shift Poe transported the detective-story from the group of tales of adventure into the group of portrayals of character.
Evening Journal readers love Nell Brinkley--she has made their lives happy with beautiful thoughts which radiate from her fascinating portrayals of romance and life.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "portrayals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
