Portray
To paint or draw the likeness of; as, to portray a king on horseback.
Hence, figuratively, to describe in words.
To adorn with pictures.
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Portray Quotations
In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
Lady Gaga
If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.
Meryl Streep
The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
David Herbert Lawrence
The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.
David Byrne
The World Cup tournament overall and, naturally, the new stadiums at its heart, are the ideal platform to portray Germany as a positive and exceptional location, and above all of course, as a highly capable economic location.
Franz Beckenbauer
Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.
Julia Roberts
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
John Cleese
I talk as I sketch, too, in order to keep their minds off what I'm doing so I'll get the most natural expression I can from them. Also, the talking helps to size up the subject's personality, so I can figure out better how to portray him.
Norman Rockwell
The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.
Jerzy Kosinski
People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way.
Anita Desai
Portray Translations
portray in Spanish is retratar
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