Word: portrayal
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...hostages are released, the clergy's biggest problem will be to portray any compromise made with the U.S. as an unqualified victory for Iran. That could explain why Raja'i seemed to mix sugar-coated language with a bit of bile. He declared that once Iran's new message was in American hands, "the U.S. can decide how and when it wishes to take out its spies." The remark was interpreted as yet another threat that Tehran still had it in its power to try the hostages on espionage charges...
Simon's study of Mel's boredom bogs down by the second act, and Mel and Edna's quarreling begins to grate. Likewise, Simon is out of his league when he attempts to portray a nervous breakdown; as a result Achtman is forced to rely on a farcical style when Mel snaps. But if, in the end, he and McPhee don't possess the passion to enflame the big emotional speeches in some scenes, they make us care about Mel's and Edna's ups and downs, triumphs and hardships. And that's no small feat...
...worthwhile experiment; but on a double bill it undercuts its competition, turning its audience from theater-goers into listeners. Between the stern, subterranean gloom of the Requiem and the moral topology of The Seven Deadly Sins, the evening of theater becomes oppressive--more oppressive than necessary, even to portray Brecht's oppression-filled world...
...women's group is not puritanically opposed to sex, but rather we are favorable towards films that do not portray women as willingly subservient to violent sex, acts," she explained...
...capable of achieving almost any effect he wants, and he has turned churches into hotels and greenhouses into train stations to get exactly the look he wants. But the whole business is expended upon what may be Allen's ultimate exercise in self-flagellation: why is it necessary to portray the entire viewing public as a bunch of doltish boors? And why should Bates worry about what he's going to do for a humanity so patently unworthy of his talents...