(~s)
1.
An actor’s ~ of a character in a play or film is the way that he or she plays the character.
Mr Ying is well-known for his ~ of a prison guard in the film ‘The Last Emperor’.
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2.
An artist’s ~ of something is a drawing, painting, or photograph of it.
...a moving ~ of St John the Evangelist by Simone Martini.
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3.
The ~ of something in a book or film is the act of describing it or showing it.
This is a sensitive and often funny ~ of a friendship between two 11-year-old boys.
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4.
The ~ of something in a book, film, or programme is the way that it is made to appear.
The media persists in its ~ of us as muggers, dope sellers and gangsters...
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