Word: portrays
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...snapped cantering through Idaho on a spirited nag; and even Knox may affect jhodpurs to and from the office of the Chicago Daily News. Yet this sudden burst of horse-consciousness on the part of the Republican publicity men does not mean the G.O.P. is trying to portray its prophets as members of a wealthy and notedly extravagant class. The technique may be wrong but the idea is right:--"Frugal Alf" Landon, "he balanced Kansas' budget", thirty, honest, simple...
...favorite and which are now filling the Shubert Theatre to the doors. It's rather hard, after all these years, to think of Mr. Gillette without the pipe and double peaked cap which accompanied his Sherlock Holmesing, but it appears that Mr. Gillette has versatility and can ably portray characters other than the Doyle hero...
...only is the dreadful destruction of men depicted, but also that of land. "The Deserted Post" and "The Ruins of Langemark" portray with great care the ruined shells of buildings, the bomb-pitted fields and shattered trees, and the general desolation of the countryside...
...techniques make me dislike the more this man's writings for art in such a case makes palpable half-truths and even errors a which would be recognized as such if they were stripped naked of their glittering verbiage. Here there is no painstaking conscientious attempt to discover and portray truth whenever truth is not starting or when it calls for judicious balancing of content considerations. All is black or white in such writing. Truth comes usually in a gray mantle. Whether Broun in sincere but carried away by his emotions or whether he prostitutes his talents for the world...
...beauty. Nor had she been trained as a dancer. But the audience was polite because her father was editor of the Neue Zurcher Zeitung and had indulgently hired the hall. After that Trudi Schoop would probably have remained forever unknown if she had not undertaken one day to portray a tree in a storm for the benefit of her family. Such hysterical laughter greeted her effort that she decided that she must be comic, proceeded to improvise comical dances, assemble a troupe which has lately become the talk of Europe...