Words and phrases that have a meaning related to portrayal: (150 results)
Often used in the same context:
depiction, characterization, fictionalization, portrayer, dramatization, caricature, character, antiheroine, evocation, fable, persona, biopic, rod steiger, protagonist, spellbinder, seriocomedy, zinnemann, portrait, sendup, unworldliness, antihero, conniver, archetype, nebbishy, epicene, tragi, satire, sensualist, adventuress, irascibility, idealization, unshowy, miscast, allegories, weepie, uhry, heroine, vulgarian, misanthrope, primness, naturalism, roguishness, miniseries, narrative, dislikable, staginess, enthrallment, boyishness, tragicomedy, reprises, melodrama, lech, womanizer, seductress, adjani, roundelay, murderousness, hackwork, fictionalisation, frontierswoman, dogmatist, affectless, slyness, bloodthirstiness, alla nazimova, fusspot, plaster saint, demeanor, docudrama, film, oedipal complex, naif, ironist, goneril, limning, pathos, gauntness, hyperrealism, tale, chayefsky, ingenuousness, dogberry, handsomeness, personification, mien, artlessness, stylization, reportage, actor, narration, rawly, visage, villainess, shavian, virago, diabolism, braggart, philanderer, smarm, romanticist, fussbudget, screenplay, portrayals, rendering, presentation, depictions, rendition, evocations, delineation, portraiture, retelling, characterisation, renderings, renditions, delineations, representation, characterizations
More specific:
half-length, impression, mirror, part, role, theatrical role
Appears in the definition of:
character, dos passos, glorification, idealisation, idealization, impression, john dos passos, literalism, part, persona, role, theatrical role
More general:
acting, likeness, performing, pictorial representation, picture, picturing, playacting, playing, representational process, semblance, word-painting, word picture
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Also try:depicting, enactment, portraying
— Adjectives for portrayal: accurate, realistic, vivid, negative, sympathetic, graphic, dramatic, positive, sensitive, faithful, detailed, more...
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