The text on the Cylinder praises Cyrus, sets out his genealogy and portrays him as a king from a line of kings.

But few pharaohs were worshipped as gods long after their lifetimes, and non-official texts portray kings in a human light.

The text even portrays family ties overriding the law.

Baruch also witnesses a phoenix, which the text portrays as a massive singular bird that protects the earth from the rays of the sun.

Amelia Jones has written that the post-feminist texts which emerged in the 1980s and 1990s portrayed second-wave feminism as a monolithic entity.

The Testament of Issachar predominantly concerns asceticism, which the text portrays as virtuous.

The text, by Yevgeny Yevtushenko, portrays humor as a weapon against dictatorship and tyranny.

The text portrayed the famed Texas Rangers in a negative fashion, which was unheard of in the history of that organization.

Some texts, written solely from European sources, definitely portray Muslim women and society in a completely negative way.

His fictional texts portray the limits of knowledge and the discrepancies between thought and action in Western society.