noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
accurate
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As far as he is concerned, nobody cares how accurate our portrayal of Claudia's love life is.
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Constanze said many years later that it was an accurate portrayal of her anguish.
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What is the relationship between the accurate portrayal of a single case and a general truth about the nature of things?
realistic
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A realistic portrayal of the life and times of the legendary outlaw well worth the visit.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I cannot accept the article's portrayal of these men as bloodthirsty terrorists.
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Many have criticized Hollywood for its unrealistic portrayal of life in America.
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Spacek won an Oscar for her portrayal of Loretta Lynn.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In instances where programs dealt with religion, positive portrayals outnumbered negatives one by 4-to-3, the group said.
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It was a very unfair portrayal of you.
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The memo is seen as damaging to a prime minister who insists he is not concerned by media portrayals of his government.
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The puzzling question is why Walker compromised her portrayals like this.
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This is a portrayal of malevolence on a grand scale.
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We have already noticed that a chief motif of the Orphic cosmogonies is their portrayal of the development of new life.
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Yet beneath their glowing and reverent portrayal , there seemed to lurk another Abu Kamal.