「ゴガク魔女」を目指して　～４児のママの懲りない実験～

(Citing a sentence out of a U.S. presidential election coverage on the top
page of November 3's edition of The Daily Yomiuri　
11月3日のデイリーヨミウリ１面の記事の中の１文)

Obama has consistently sought to portray his opponent as a Bush clone.

(オバマ氏は終始、マケイン氏を「ブッシュのクローン」と表現し続けてきた。)

We can use a verbal phrase "portray someone/something as XX" this way,
while we native speakers of Japanese are less likely to come up with the
verb "portray" as we are more associated with verbs like
"describe" or "express" when we want to verbalize an act as
byousha-suru or hyougen-suru in Japanese.
I suppose "portray" may fit better in some of such situations.
Hopefully we can use this verb!

portray someone/something as XXは直訳すると「誰・何々をＸＸと描写する」
です。が、日本語「描写する」「表現する」からの発想ですと
describeかexpressしか思い浮かばないかもしれないですよね。
動詞portrayが使えるとかっこいいですね。