Sentence examples for avoid depicting from inspiring English sources

It's usually best to avoid depicting life in black-white contrast.

But she said that it would be dishonest to avoid depicting violence in films.

"This is good for the perception of Disney, but the primary reason is that cigarette smoking is a hazard and we should avoid depicting it in movies and on television," said Disney's chief executive, Robert A. Iger, in an interview.

At the same time, he sought to avoid depicting precolonial Africa as a pastoral idyll, rejecting the nostalgic evocations of Léopold Senghor and the francophone négritude school of writing.

That's why Jacobs manages to avoid depicting teen-agers as funny, kooky slobs or as typecast members of cliques: he knows that the dares and discoveries of the age have a mortal intensity, which lets him see past the traits of characters to the essence of character, in its variety and depth.

It would have been difficult, though, for the publisher's picture researchers to avoid depicting the author in the grip of the solitary vice because, until around the 1990s, writers were as likely to have a cloud of smoke above their heads as saints to wear a halo on holy icons.

The film avoids depicting the prophet visually, in line with Islamic prohibitions against figural depictions of the prophet.

In the early Republic, many Americans avoided depicting Jesus or God in any form.

Naturally, the painter avoided depicting the sky, the forest on the horizon, the neighboring buildings, and the little flock of goats on a hillock nearby.

He plays down the pain of Americans who endured 9/11 by saying, "If I cannot destroy a big high-rise anymore, because terrorists blew up two of the most famous ones, the twin towers, what does this say about our world?" Yet he cowers — and avoids depicting the destruction of any Islamic symbols — because he doesn't want to make extremists mad enough to come after him.

She argues that Darwin purposefully avoided depicting the bloody brutality of the struggle for survival in images, instead he used abstract and at times mathematical language to make his points.