For that matter, none of the major characters in this novel are convincingly portrayed from within.

In low-budget movies there are just some things that you can't portray convincingly.

But everybody in the book is convincingly portrayed, including the killer and a blind fanatic believed by many to be the new Prophet.

He questions whether they can convincingly portray the roles if they are still virgins.

While they, too, are convincingly portrayed by a trio of skilled performers, there's not much uplift here, either.

Both dancers convincingly portrayed young people blessed with good looks, but with little worldly experience.

His reflective manners and insightful statements convincingly portray him as a wise academic who has lived a profound life.

Xevious is also the first to convincingly portray realistic landscapes as opposed to purely science fiction settings.

She convincingly portrays erratic moods of a person.

But the movie, which imagines its principal characters as metaphorically ticking time bombs, never convincingly portrays their passions.