portrayee

Example Sentences

• "[…] portrayees include everyone from Francesco Hayez to Carlo Carra."
• "The technique of the self-portrait should dominate, and again, not in the Who-is-Who style, with an enumeration of degrees, awards, and publications, but rather as an intellectual history of the portrayee: e.g., How did you come to linguistics — To which method or ‘school’ of linguistics — Your development before and at the U. of I. — The reception of your field among students and disciplines… and whatever else seems relevant to you."
• "In our opinion Meisel quite rightly puts these circumstances down to Eliot’s disability to recognise the advantages and the possibilities which are inherent in his position as a latecomer, quite in contrast to Pater, who made this the virtue of several of his portrayees and most of all of himself, silently taking up the privileged position at the end of the line."
• "A sculptor who portrays a person, however, is faced with the same difficulties as the painter in picking out certain properties of the portrayee."
• "I thank the photographers whose work enlivens this book and their portrayees, as well as the authors and editors of the publications in which I encountered them, for permission to include the images in question."
• "A week to the day after the now infamous group therapy session, the entire cast was again ready to assemble and get back to work, although a few of the portrayees still wore the marks of that “polemicise”."