Word: portrayal
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...characters cannot depend on actions or gestures to help convey the varying depth and quality of their feelings. Both Coleman and Levitt give convincing performances and maximize the impact of each line of the script through careful attention to their tone and inflections in speech. Coleman manages to portray a seven-year-old princess, promiscuous teenager, and troubled, jaded socialite all in succession. Occassionally, she borders on emotional excess; for example, the repeated emphasis on her despicable stepfather's name seems overdone and jarring. But overall, her charged voice effectively reveals the joy, pain, and depression that Melissa experiences...
Today, as Richard Milhous Nixon is laid the rest, it is time to remember the man as he was in life, not as the myth which President Bill Clinton and the press have been trying to portray this week. This fairy-tale of Nixon--as a man with an indomitable spirit, whose stunning political comebacks and foreign policy successes are unparalleled--is a farce...
Gaines and Churcher interviewed tirelessly to portray Klein's Bronx childhood, spent under the thumb of a domineering mother. Like many designers, little Calvin began sewing as a tyke and was impatient with school. After a couple of dead-end apprenticeships, his future dawned with the opening of an elevator door. In 1968 he had a tiny garment-district office when a Bonwit Teller executive on his way to another floor glimpsed some coats. He ordered his assistant out of the elevator to check them out. Soon the young designer was the star of the store's young line...
Twenty-five years later, The Gazette's coverage continues to portray the administration in a light less harsh than that of independent publications...
...less complex character to portray, but Lawrence Fishburne's performances is no less believable. His dual nature as wife beater taskmaster , and needy husband are clearly conveyed. The irony of their parallel fears--his fear of his wife's success and overarching name recognition and Tina's own trepidation that come with the increasing responsibilities--is cleverly evoked through the acting, the screenplay and the director's choreography of the dialogue...