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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
pourtray .
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Examples
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Having entered on his fair inheritance of this new world of human nature, Fielding pourtrays it from the standpoint of his own maxim, that life "everywhere furnishes an accurate observer with the ridiculous."
Henry Fielding: a Memoir G. M. Godden
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This, however, instead of implying any defect in the gospel system, which breathes peace and love; only pourtrays in darker colours the deep and universal depravity of the human heart.
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Fielding pourtrays it from the standpoint of his own maxim, that life
Henry Fielding A Memoir Godden, G M 1909
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– New York Sun. "'The Passionate Hearts' pourtrays passion and pathos with a subtle power and simplicity."
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One of these is similar to that at Chicksands, the other, which is the one Dorothy dislikes, pourtrays her with a lap dog.
Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54) 1888
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Such pleasure as the ordinary man derives from the contemplation of a picture usually depends chiefly upon the emotions of admiration, affection, or pity which it arouses within him, or sometimes, if it pourtrays a scene with which he is familiar, its charm consists in its power to awaken the memory of past joys.
Thought-Forms Annie Wood Besant 1890
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He scarcely touches on the great historic events, and never ventures a comprehensive judgment; nor can he even take a wide survey of the characters he pourtrays.
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879
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Because Mohammed, if he had done what he did, in France and in the eighteenth century, would have been called an impostor, Voltaire, the great mouthpiece and representative of this style of criticism, pourtrays him as an impostor.
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But he would have it otherwise, and pourtrays us side by side with the legend --
In Bohemia with Du Maurier The First Of A Series Of Reminiscences Felix Moscheles 1875
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That sketch admirably pourtrays the lankiness and flabbiness of
In Bohemia with Du Maurier The First Of A Series Of Reminiscences Felix Moscheles 1875
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