"portray" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- An ever-popular comic character is Mother Ginger, the enormous woman, traditionally portrayed by a man, who conceals a whole brood of children beneath her skirts.
- Schiller's Elizabeth and Mary are traditionally portrayed by actors as a 16th-century odd couple.
- In paintings, Mary is traditionally portrayed in blue.
- Christ after his Resurrection is traditionally portrayed dressed in white.
- These kinds of characters (see also the grave diggers from Hamlet) were traditionally portrayed by clowns, which most Elizabethan theatres had in their employ.
- St Patrick is traditionally portrayed in the vestments of a bishop, and his mitre and garments are often decorated with a cross pattée.
- As traditionally portrayed in Hollywood films, men are more likely to cut in than women.
- Modern documentaries suggest that there may not have been a "Last Stand", as traditionally portrayed in popular culture.
- Mao is traditionally portrayed in dignified style - serene, thoughtful, usually with one arm raised in a gesture of imperial benevolence.
- Dragons, monsters, trolls and witches are all traditionally portrayed as denizens of the deep.
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