depiction
representation in image form, as in a painting or illustration: Picasso's painting Guernica is an accurate depiction of the horrors of war.
representation or characterization in words: Mark Twain's letters are a clear depiction of his life and times.
an act or instance of depicting.
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How to use depiction in a sentence
He suspected that she had unconsciously registered the rotting stairs, and her dream was a vivid depiction of the threat.
Some of the depictions of landscapes are actual and unaltered.
In the galleries: Middle East artists examine sheltering in place amid pandemic | Mark Jenkins | January 15, 2021 | Washington PostThe gorgeous ocean-floor depictions were included as poster-sized supplements in issues of National Geographic magazine between 1967 and 1971.
Marie Tharp’s groundbreaking maps brought the seafloor to the world | Betsy Mason | January 13, 2021 | Science NewsNumerous critics have argued that the burden of an accurate depiction of history would be too unduly heavy for a lightweight story like Bridgerton to bear.
By refusing to show us a “true” depiction of the Isu civilization, and viewing it only through the lens of cultures we know, we begin to have a deeper connection to the past, even as the truth remains forever obscured from us.
How ‘Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’ makes sense of stories about Vikings, pirates and George Washington | Gene Park | January 1, 2021 | Washington Post
“We prove that the depiction of military in the media is always better with veterans,” reads their website.
The Right-Wing Crusade Against KStew: How Fear Factories Like Breitbart and Fox Distort News | Marlow Stern | October 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNext door in Romania, a historical figure nicknamed Vlad the Impaler inspired the first mainstream depiction of a vampire.
I would cringe the same way you would if I felt [the depiction was problematic].
Dovlatov lived for a long time in Leningrad and gave a loving depiction of it, but nbsp;there is no street named for him there.
From Moscow to Queens, Down Sergei Dovlatov Way | Daniel Genis | September 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBlack wore a hat with his surname, the A formed by a depiction of the African continent.
The elevation in the drawing you have indicated as "A" is a depiction of what?
Warren Commission (3 of 26): Hearings Vol. III (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President KennedyHe has pages of clear depiction, even of satire, but the sentimentalist is always lurking just round the corner.
Instigations | Ezra PoundI should like the reader to note how complete is Mr. Eliot's depiction of our contemporary condition.
Instigations | Ezra PoundBut this slight defect is more than atoned for by the power shown in the depiction of character.
Essays on Modern Novelists | William Lyon PhelpsEach letter is to give an absolutely faithful account of her life, with a perfectly truthful depiction of her real character.
Essays on Modern Novelists | William Lyon Phelps
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