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- noun Plural form of
portrayal .
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Examples
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Our expectations as artists, as photographers, and as consumers, of what we expect in photorealistic portrayals is quite amusing.
Max Eternity: Joe Nalven: Living Anthropology and the Art of "Homage" Max Eternity 2010
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Our expectations as artists, as photographers, and as consumers, of what we expect in photorealistic portrayals is quite amusing.
Max Eternity: Joe Nalven: Living Anthropology and the Art of "Homage" Max Eternity 2010
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It still does a disservice to the created group to enforce the stereotype in portrayals of the group.
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Our expectations as artists, as photographers, and as consumers, of what we expect in photorealistic portrayals is quite amusing.
Max Eternity: Joe Nalven: Living Anthropology and the Art of "Homage" Max Eternity 2010
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Also, the use of stereotypical portrayals is tasteless.
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The pejorative portrayals were not always taken lying down - thus, in one case documented by Mulay, nationalists from all communities protested against the showing of one particularly anti-Muslim film in Bombay in 1938, picketing theatres and holding public meetings.
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Monkeys have been used historically in pejorative portrayals of black people, and the New York Post cartoon immediately drew criticism, including from civil-rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton.
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Referring to the portrayals of Dr Singh and Mrs Gandhi, Mr Sibal said: "I believe that no reasonable person, aware of the sensibilities of a large section of the communities in this country, would wish to see this in the public domain."
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Dean Nelson 2011
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K-Rod minimized whatever occurred, calling portrayals of the incident false.
ESPN.com 2010
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I actually think that in male literature so-called portrayals of love are usually some variation of pornography, or at least perpetrate the dominance / submission dynamic.
Women's Space 2008
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