As a stark contrast to early comic portrayals, she insists that Sabrina only use her magic for good.

By this time, a cult audience saw Ball Four as a candid and comic portrayal of the ups and downs of baseball life.

Chuckles - Here, he is played as silent (minus the frenzied yelling), contrary to his filecard description and his comic portrayal.

As always, Mr. Parks's principal strength is in his crisp, unsentimental, grimly comic portrayal of characters on the edge.

Teasing the local Pasha (Ethan Brown, in an astute and comic portrayal), she was delightful and sweet.

Most comic portrayals, however, default to depicting the Joker as unscarred and fully capable of not smiling, should the mood take him.

Kubrick ultimately found this comic portrayal inappropriate, feeling that Muffley should be a serious character.

There might be a concern that if, as a culture, we don't balance comic portrayals with thoughtful investigation then we risk trivialisation.

He had a sympathetic portrayal rather that a comic portrayal of people, often using a dark background to add to the warmth of the person portrayed.

Nonetheless, the critics applauded his comic portrayal of the maniacal cartoon villain, Lex Luthor.