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There is the same fascination with factual detail, the same conviction that depictive accuracy stands as the warrant of what Ms. Johnson calls a “reverence for the cosmos.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

Is this accurate—or is Tisdale, the memoirist, learning her lesson about depictive politesse?

From Slate • Apr. 8, 2016

It doesn’t aim to be as physically depictive as that work, nor as impressionistic as Debussy’s “La Mer,” to which Mr. Adams alludes in the colors of his glisteningly alluring piece.

From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2014

In fact, despite the abysmal state of fashion and ephemera, some depictive art of the '80s in America is in fine shape.

From Time Magazine Archive

Miss Alice Corkran has shown me an illustrated coloured map, depictive of the main incidents and scenery of the Pilgrim's Progress, which he genially made for "the children."

From Life of Robert Browning by Sharp, William