Word: portrayal
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...provided little wisdom at all, serving only to perpetuate inaccurate and damaging stereotypes. Though "Pre-Meds" may be overzealous in their quest for grades, I doubt that any would stoop so low as to steal a wallet. It wouldn't even help their grades. Mr. Smith chose only to portray every college major in its worst stereotypical light. Attitudes such as these, even if in jest, serve only to misinform and misrepresent. To add insult to injury, Mr. Smith engaged in blatant sexism. He wrote that "a wily person [no gender here] can use these stereotypes to his advantages...
Writing about India poses, of course, a similar dilemma. Those aspiring to something beyond costumes and pageantry must try to portray the native inhabitants from within, as they think and feel, to disprove Kipling's saw about the twain never meeting. This task is not only difficult but potentially self-defeating, since the allure of India to many Western eyes lies in the exotic ineffability of its people and spectacles...
...indulgences. "I do not like reading my old poems," he wrote one admirer, "because I am not working on new poems." Yet reading his old poems before bedazzled crowds was what he was paid handsomely to do. His letters supply no evidence that he seriously contemplated suicide. But they portray, powerfully, a man trapping himself in a quandary from which there seemed to be no earthly escape. His poetry survives. The impractical young dreamer from Wales may have been wrong about almost everything but his immortality...
Cagney's pugnacious, straight-from-the-shoulder style and his genuine modesty ("I was always a journeyman actor," he once said) belied both his professionalism and his artistic versatility. He could portray protean Actor Lon Chaney in the film biography Man of a Thousand Faces as easily as the irascible ship's captain in Mister Roberts. His performance as Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream inspired Director Max Reinhardt to label him the "best actor in Hollywood." White Heat contains a typical bit of Cagney , business, less a trick than a nuance. He had the killer Cody Jarrett...
...thing, the Contras do not merely "advocate" murder; they practice it. It is disingenuous to portray this incident solely as a free speech issue. There is nothing wrong with open debate. But, unfortunately, the world is not a Gov section. While we calmly debate the merits of various opinions, Nicaraguans are today being killed--this is not some abstract concept nor merely my personal opinion, but documented reality...