The Russian writer Dostoevsky ( himself a problem gambler ) portrays in his novella The Gambler the psychological implications of gambling and how gambling can affect gamblers.

Fox portrays himself as always in the right and always vindicated by God's interventions on his behalf.

In Tootsie ( 1982 ), Hoffman portrays Michael Dorsey, a struggling actor who finds himself dressing up as a woman to land a role on a soap opera.

Although Gunge portrays himself as the brains of the pair, neither ever really prove a great help.

DeForest Kelley portrays Doctor Leonard McCoy, who is given many of the film's comedic lines ; Kelley biographer Terry Lee Rioux wrote that in the film " he seemed to be playing straight man to himself ".

* Hungarian psychologist Péter Popper wrote a novel in 1997 Peloni or the Testament of Pilate in which Pilate portrays himself as a cultivated Roman bewildered by Judea and the Jews, who experienced some of the divine power of Jesus and executed him on Jesus's own impulse.

He portrays himself as a father figure towards them and would usually regard them as his boys.

In it he portrays himself as a celebrity spokesman for Mega Lo Mart, although his animated form appears much younger than his current age, more closely resembling how he looked in the late 1970s, always wearing the white and red shirt from the cover of his " Feels So Good " album.

In his book, Delmedigo portrays himself as defender of Maimonidean Judaism, and — like many Maimonideans — he emphasized the rationality of Jewish tradition.

* Ron MacLean-the host of Hockey Night in Canada has appeared on Air Farce in several sketches, most notably one in which he portrays himself alongside Goy ( as the Queen who is impersonating Don Cherry ).

* Brian Williams-then-CBC Sports anchor who has made several appearances on Air Farce, most memorably in which he portrays himself locked in his studio at the conclusion of the 2000 Olympic Games.

Nogson portrays himself as " fierce ", but is actually anything but.

When Frank Willard, author of Moon Mullins, narrates a scene from his workplace, he portrays himself as a rowdy underdog much like The Yellow Kid.

A later scene portrays FDR literally dragging himself up the stairs as, through grit and determination, he painfully strives to overcome his physical limitations and not remain an invalid.

Theatre historian Don Wilmeth noted Gray's contribution to a unique style of writing and acting: " The 1980s saw the rise of the autobiographical monologue, its leading practitioner Spalding Gray, the WASP from Rhode Island who portrays himself as an innocent abroad in a crazy contemporary world.

In the video Stevens portrays himself, Santa, the prosecutor, and the Judge.

: An occasional actor on the show ( and a member of Jimmy's writing staff ), Tony Barbieri periodically portrays Jake Byrd, who insinuates himself into real life events around the country, seeking attention and irritating those around him.

Just behind them, Velázquez portrays himself working at a large canvas.

KQ6 primarily portrays the plan as Alhazred's plan to become the new King of the Green Isles ( who asks for advice from Shadrack ), and the Companion takes it further as the ultimate plan is to lead to the Land's destruction ( possibly instigated by Shadrack himself, with Abdul Alhazred being Mordack's underling ).

Possibly the most adept at musical depiction in his program music was the German composer Richard Strauss, whose symphonic poems include Death and Transfiguration ( portraying a dying man and his entry into heaven ), Don Juan ( based on the ancient legend of Don Juan ), Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks ( based on episodes in the career of the legendary German figure Till Eulenspiegel ), Don Quixote ( portraying episodes in the life of Miguel de Cervantes ' character, Don Quixote ), A Hero's Life ( which depicts episodes in the life of an unnamed hero often taken to be Strauss himself ) and Symphonia Domestica ( which portrays episodes in the composer's own married life, including putting the baby to bed ).

This would have discredited Sarmiento as a respected father of Argentina, as Sarmiento portrays himself as a sole individual, disregarding or denouncing important ties to other people and groups in his life.

He portrays himself as a veteran stage actor trying to make a new name for himself while having several substance-related vices.

Instead, he often proclaims himself to be a pirate, and typically portrays himself as such in his articles and artwork.

He portrays Harold as lacking in chivalry, courtesy, and honor.

* The film portrays a man named Harold Sanderson as the chairmen of the White Star Line who disembarks in Cherbourg, France before the ships heads for the open Atlantic.

The book portrays the political situation of Europe in the later Viking Age, Andalusia under Al-Mansur Ibn Abi Aamir, Denmark under Harold Bluetooth, followed by the struggle between Eric the Victorious and Sweyn Forkbeard, Ireland under Brian Boru, England under Ethelred the Unready, and the Battle of Maldon, all before the backdrop of the gradual Christianisation of Scandinavia, contrasting the pragmatic Norse pagan outlook with the exclusiveness of Islam and Christianity.

In 1995, Castellaneta started writing Where Did Vincent van Gogh ?, a one man play in which he portrays a dozen different characters, including artist Vincent van Gogh.

He followed this success with roles in major films like A Few Good Men ( 1992 ), Lightning Jack ( 1994 ), Outbreak ( 1995 ), Men of Honor ( 2000 ), Rat Race ( 2001 ), and The Fighting Temptations ( 2003 ) in which he co-starred alongside Beyoncé Knowles who portrays his love interest.

Allan Massie wrote " King David " ( 1995 ), a novel about David's career which portrays the king's relationship to Jonathan and others as openly homosexual.

More temperately than in the study of Grey and despite his Liberal bias, Trevelyan vividly sketches the England of pre-French Revolution days, portrays the stresses and strains of the revolutionary period in rich colors, and brings developments leading to the Reform Bill into sharp and clear focus.

For example, arrow 17 in Figure 3 portrays the proximal radial epiphysis for boy 34, whereas the same epiphysis for girl 2 is portrayed by arrow 18 in Figure 4.

Figure 1 portrays the mean achievement scores of each sub-group graphically.

As Origen interprets the end of history on the basis of its beginning, so Irenaeus portrays the story of Adam on the basis of the story of Christ.

Cassius Dio ( 78. 13. 4 ) portrays the Alemanni as victims of this treacherous emperor.

Mary Stewart's The Crystal Cave follows Geoffrey of Monmouth in calling him Aurelius Ambrosius and portrays him as the father of Merlin, the elder brother of Uther ( hence uncle of Arthur ), an initiate of Mithras, and generally admired by everyone except the Saxons.

It is such a character that she portrays in Edward Weston, and that her heroine Agnes Grey finds deeply appealing.

The song portrays an Irish worker working on a railroad.

By contrast, Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities ( 1987 ) portrays a wealthy, white protagonist, Sherman McCoy, getting lost off the Major Deegan Expressway in the South Bronx and having an altercation with locals.

The book of Ruth portrays a perfect example of a true belief in the Creator God in that it propagates inclusion of all, even in the ancient world of the Israelites where separation is made obvious between Israelites and non-Israelites.

This image portrays the world as consisting of an enormous text which is as large as the universe itself.

Gibson portrays William Wallace, a 13th-century Scottish warrior who led the Scots in the First War of Scottish Independence against King Edward I of England.

He portrays Sam Axe, a beer-chugging, womanizing former Navy SEAL now working as an unlicensed private investigator and occasional mercenary with his old friend Michael Westen, the show's main character.

Holinshed portrays Banquo as an historical figure: he is an accomplice in Mac Bethad mac Findlaích's ( Macbeth's ) murder of Donnchad mac Crínáin ( King Duncan ) and plays an important part in ensuring that Macbeth, not Máel Coluim mac Donnchada ( Malcolm ), takes the throne in the coup that follows.

" By contrast, the composition from the Byzantine point of view portrays Constantine Palaeologus as a brave leader who gave his life for the cause.

Other than the variations in their stories, the battle occurs in the same manner and neither of the compositions portrays the opposition in a brutally negative light.

The earliest known depiction of a gun is a sculpture from a cave in Sichuan, dating to the 12th century that portrays a figure carrying a vase-shaped bombard, firing flames and a ball.

The title indicates the region the map portrays ; the map image portrays the region and so on.

In the film serials Superman ( 1948 ) and Atom Man vs. Superman ( 1950 ), Kirk Alyn portrays Clark as a mild-mannered reporter who comes to Metropolis and secures a job at the Daily Planet, following the death of his foster parents.

Díaz portrays the executions as unjust and based on no evidence, and admits to having liked Cuauhtémoc personally.

This portrays the story of a disputation between Saint Dominic and the Cathars ( Albigensians ), in which the books of both were thrown on a fire and St. Dominic's books were miraculously preserved from the flames.