depict
Contrary to media depictions, the town seems peaceful and pleasant.
It is a crime to sell depictions of animal cruelty for commercial gain.
The film's depiction of the 1960s is naively nostalgic.
Viewers should not take courtroom television as an accurate depiction of what happens in a real courtroom.
They believe the gods represented are living, not mere depictions.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Representation in art & in general
anti-realism
anti-realist
Calvary
complementary
confederate
mimesis
naturalistically
non-figurative
non-representational
non-symbolic
portrayal
realism
realist
representation
representational
symbolic
symbolism
symbolization
ultrarealism
volumetric

Examples of depiction

depiction
This considerably reduces the inherent power of his depiction of child labour.
Knees are shown but no depiction of feet; the legs end in a ring below which is a round peg base 8 cm long.
This depiction obscures the reality that in the past decade or more, legal responses to problems of land relations have been energetically promoted.
The customers compensate for their ignorance by using a combination of elaborate verbal and visual depiction.
This point is reinforced by juxtaposing the correspondent's depiction of domestic interiors with those of public spaces in his reports.
As one would expect, it is a depiction that has also been observed in metropolitan newspapers.
Some people found the depiction of industrial activity distasteful, and assumed the murals were highlighting poor workers' conditions.
It situates his once-famous depiction of savage politics as a premonitory rejection of the state at the crossroads of several traditions, long- and short-term.
These indices provide a straightforward depiction of the students' decoding behavior.
The article demonstrates that, in no case, did this depiction correspond with reality.
But might this depiction of a subject's travails and transformation have struck a deeper chord?
And finally, looking beyond the peace movement, what can the depictions of peace in these posters tell us about the possibility of peace in modernity?
By positively reconstructing images of ageing through more acceptable and more numerous depictions of older people, advertisers can fulfil their ethical responsibilities.
A fresh systematic analysis of the genre, of which the depiction of musical conversations forms an important subset, would be timely.
Any depiction would be a tentative embodiment of the abstract concept of enhancement.
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Collocations withdepiction

depiction

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accurate depiction
Even if the detail were fictitious, it nonetheless presents an accuratedepiction based on the historical record.
artistic depiction
It is a penetrating and artistic depiction of familial bond, underscored by a set of life value messages.
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