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Nelson, about half way through his five-year contract, ranges broadly during our conversation about the direction of the memorial on his watch, its depiction of Indigenous Australians, its refusal to depict colonial frontier war, the impact of war on service personnel and their families, and the pantheon of the first world war in Australia's cultural and historical narrative.
Pakistan objected to the depiction of Adam, which it said broke a prohibition on depicting Koranic figures.
Most notorious of all was Cannibal Holocaust's depiction of the slaughter of wild animals.
The film industry is still falling behind television in its depiction of gay characters, according to a report published yesterday that found only a marginal improvement last year.
What's more surprising is that, while it's generally known that the art schools of the past almost always had a professor of anatomy on their staffs, anatomical and pathological depiction seems to have had an influence on fine art in general.
My own strong reaction to the novel stemmed from Austen's depiction of society, a world of conspicuous consumption (Sir Walter Elliot cannot stand the idea of retrenching when he mismanages his finances and prefers to leave his house rather than be seen with a footman or a picture less) and his arrogant, good-looking daughter Elizabeth can't be seen without all the props, either.
The groundbreaking working class films of the Sixties such as Saturday Night, Sunday Morning, A Kind of Loving, Room at the Top were startling in their depiction of social inequities, but these were not films to savour for their cinematic verve.
Her first solo credit came with Holiday Camp (1947), a vivid depiction of postwar working-class people at play.
At the end you were left feeling you'd experienced a very real and very human depiction of what it is to be in love - and heard a former member of Pulp drop the c-bomb.
Today's front cover bothers me only in one regard and that is in the racial stereotypes employed in the depiction of the prophet Muhammad, a shorthand here for Arabs and Muslims more broadly.
Africa's first fully touch-screen medical tablet then produces a moving graphical depiction of the cardiac cycle, which is wirelessly transmitted over GSM networks to a cardiologist for interpretation and diagnosis.
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The primary grammatical function of "depiction " is that of a noun . It refers to the act or result of depicting something, be it through visual art, writing, or other forms of representation. Ludwig AI confirms its correct usage in numerous contexts.
Expression frequency: Very common
