Word: portray
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only is the dreadful destruction of men depicted, but also that of land. "The Deserted Post" and "The Ruins of Langemark" portray with great care the ruined shells of buildings, the bomb-pitted fields and shattered trees, and the general desolation of the countryside...
...beauty. Nor had she been trained as a dancer. But the audience was polite because her father was editor of the Neue Zurcher Zeitung and had indulgently hired the hall. After that Trudi Schoop would probably have remained forever unknown if she had not undertaken one day to portray a tree in a storm for the benefit of her family. Such hysterical laughter greeted her effort that she decided that she must be comic, proceeded to improvise comical dances, assemble a troupe which has lately become the talk of Europe...
Shot 2?Diego Rivera's art is not revolutionary because it fails to portray the Communist ideal...
...That picture would have to include motion-picture and sound effects, too-the flopping, pointless efforts of the injured to stand up; the queer, grunting noises; the steady, panting, groaning of a human being with pain creeping up on him as the shock wears off. It should portray the slack expression on the face of a man, drugged with shock, staring at the Z-twist in his broken leg, the insane crumpled effect of a child's body after its bones are crushed inward, a realistic portrait of an hysterical woman with her screaming mouth opening a hole...
Author Fessier piles Pelion on Ossa by declaring, at the end of his little old book: "The characters and situations in this work are wholly fictional and imaginative, and do not portray and are not intended to portray any actual persons or parties...