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They portrayed him as a tragic figure caught in a web of Argentine and Brazilian duplicity who mobilized the nation to repulse its enemies, holding them off heroically for five bloody, horror-filled years until Paraguay was finally overrun and prostrate.
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They and portrayed
They are commonly portrayed as serpentine or reptilian, hatching from eggs and possessing typically scaly or feathered bodies.
They are sometimes portrayed as having especially large eyes or watching treasure very diligently, a feature that is the origin of the word dragon ( Greek drakeîn meaning " to see clearly ").
They are often portrayed as children with Williams syndrome ( which was not recognised as a medical condition but some specialist believe that people were enchanted with their character and appearance that they believed to be magical ), usually with fair hair.
They have invented and built real versions of the technologies portrayed in the show, including the Protector.
They portrayed overall visual effects instead of details, and used short " broken " brush strokes of mixed and pure unmixed colour — not blended smoothly or shaded, as was customary — to achieve an effect of intense colour vibration.
They also portrayed middle and lower-class people negatively, while Shakespearean heroes were typically aristocratic.
They belied the carefully crafted image portrayed by the Mattachine Society and DOB that asserted homosexuals were respectable, normal people.
They are usually portrayed as antagonists to the X-Men.
They are portrayed as somewhat intelligent, with a language of sorts, and are consciously in league with the Orcs, rather than wild animals the Orcs have tamed.
They portrayed Ike Clanton and Tom McLaury as being unjustly bullied and beaten by the vengeful Earps on the day of the gunfight.
They are portrayed as wild, rambunctious young children who dance and perform somersaults.
They were also portrayed as at odds with society, having tragic lives, and often given to self-destructive tendencies.
They portrayed an American middle class family that lived in suburbia.
They are the dominant sex of the civilization portrayed in the novel.
They praised the cast, particularly Kenneth More's Arthur and Le Mesurier's Gawain, which they said are " rather touchingly portrayed as friends who have grown old together ".
They are often portrayed as yōjimbo ( bodyguards ) or as watari-kashi ( mercenary fighters ).
In 1984, he portrayed Santa Claus in the made-for-TV holiday film The Night They Saved Christmas.
They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic.
They named themselves after the extraterrestrial Klaatu portrayed by Michael Rennie in the film The Day the Earth Stood Still.
" Referee Robert Polis who scored the fight 72 – 66 in Giardello's favor stated: " They portrayed Joey Giardello as an incompetent fighter.
They are considered members of the fairy / underworld folk, who are usually portrayed as malevolent.
They were portrayed in their teen age design.
They fell into stereotypical vaudevillian roles: originally Williams portrayed a slick conniver, while Walker played the " dumb coon " victim of Williams ' schemes .< ref >
They included North to Alaska ( 1960 ), a comedy, as a prostitute who becomes the love interest of John Wayne, and Walk on the Wild Side ( 1962 ), in which she portrayed a redeemed hooker, before moving to Switzerland in 1962.
They and him
They crawled through the north fence and came on toward him, and now he saw that both were young, not more than nineteen or twenty.
They might kill him in his sleep, thinking there was money in the house.
They dragged him inside the building.
They weren't sleeping, of course, but they thought they were doing him a favor by pretending.
They expected greater things from him, regardless of how trying the circumstances, and they were disappointed.
They stared at him.
They closed in fast, kept him from reaching inside his coat for his gun.
They escorted him down from the porch and through the rain to his office.
They moved in on him, crowded him from all sides.
They followed him into the rain and across to the squat stone building fifty feet to the rear.
They crowded him in that threatening way once more, forced him to give in.
They trailed him across the wide hallway to the parlor, four roughly garbed and tough-looking men who probably had never before ventured into such a house.
They grounded him ( over his protests -- not including his true reason for wanting to fly ) and put him in the Command offices.
They could come on him now without difficulty.
They bought rustled cattle from the outlaw, kept him supplied with guns and ammunition, harbored his men in their houses.
They whirled and saw him, standing there dim in the slatted light from the boarded freight wall.
They were in fact quietly laughing at him, for their King wished to have nothing to do with the Western world.
They would be lolling under a tree sipping Ouzo, relishing the leisurely life, assuring him that the day was yet young.
They had my mother's opinion of him: that he was too sharp or a little too good to be true.
They don't expect to stop him, just slow him down some with the bat.
They were pursuing him.
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