1.   At its most seductive, the film portrays heaven as a magical, hallucinatory extension of the physical world that has been left behind.

2.   Both films portrayed Iranian farmers rolling with the punches of nature and almost cheerfully rebuilding their lives after a devastating earthquake.

3.   A less lighthearted film might have portrayed Janice as a dangerous pathological liar.

4.   Directed by George Weisenborn, the film portrayed the interaction of two boys, one white, the other African-American, as they tried to deal with racial prejudice.

5.   Even though the film portrays the emptiness of life in front of a computer, it is not anti-Web.

6.   His film thus portrays children as sexual beings without presenting them as sex objects.

7.   How do we judge the history that film portrays, and the films that portray history?

8.   If we are meant to root for Truman against the delusions peddled by the media masters, why does the film portray ordinary citizens as so horrific?

9.   Recent films have portrayed the president as sleazy, even criminal.

10.   Schell said that the two films portray competing images of the student movement.