1.   The main characters are brilliantly portrayed.

2.   Both on TV and in theater, Brochtrup, who is gay, has frequently portrayed gay characters.

3.   All the other characters are portrayed as subhuman.

4.   But the book portrays its characters talking the way so-called bindle stiffs of the Depression did.

5.   But who holds the record for portraying the character most?

6.   Cheadle and Luis Guzman remind us how vividly characters can be portrayed and still remain members of an ensemble.

7.   Early presidential characters were portrayed positively and simply.

8.   Even when characters are portrayed with a kind of cartoonish heavy-handedness, the film never loses its weight.

9.   Fewer modern clowns portray hobo characters, which were popular in the past, conferees said.

10.   Geary portrays characters ranging from verbally abusive vagrants to self-righteous U.S. senators, shifting seamlessly from one to the next.