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The phrase "are a picture" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something or someone that represents or embodies a particular quality or characteristic, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "The children playing in the park are a picture of happiness, laughing and enjoying their time together."
Alternatives: "are a representation" or "are a reflection".
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Black's pieces are a picture of harmony.
They are a picture of the free market in miniature.
Though Buffalo remains the largest city in upstate New York, sections of its waterfront are a picture of industrial ruin.
Nic and Jules, a couple with two children, a Volvo and a tidy, spacious house in a pleasant suburban stretch of Southern California, are a picture of normalcy.
Alberto Contador and Thor Hushovd are a picture of contentment, having a nice chat as they drift along with the gentles of breezes drifting up their backsides.
Soft-spoken and gray-haired, they are a picture of marital ease and contentment: sexually fulfilled, easy in each others company, instinctively choosing kindness over recrimination.
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The lifeguards are a picture-book of the American ideal – young, vigorous, tanned – and Big John considers a beach day like this with clear blues skies and calm, 66-degree water, close to perfection.
Truly funny sight gags are a picture-book holy grail, or should be, and Kris Di Giacomo's cartoonish yet painterly illustrations are witty in a way children and adults alike will savor.
Now the promenade and the Pierrepont Playground, both prominent features of Mr. Brennan's daily life, are a picture-perfect viewing stand from which to remember not just one but two fresh disasters.
Here's a picture.
It's a picture.
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