Sentence examples for depictive from inspiring English sources

More suggestive than depictive, Mr. Gurrin's images — a distant prairie home subjected to slow, prismatic distortions; an industrial building standing placid amid simulated wind gusts — provided poetic counterpoint without distracting unduly from the music.

Other depictive artists should look at Freud and either despair or get inspired.

To be sure, in this early work, Pfänder still classifies meaning something as a kind of presentation (Vorstellung): roughly, to mean something is to present a (representing) content that symbolically refers to another (represented) content that itself is not present in sensation, whereby the two contents are in a similarity or depictive relation (1900, 25ff, cf. also Fischer 1905).

Hartmann's concept of artistic appearance does not embrace only the depictive or symbolic contents of representational works of art, as Hartmann also applies his levels analysis to the aesthetic properties of non-figurative works, including architectural ones.

It is generally possible, for instance, to turn over a picture and look at its blank backside, to examine its surface for marks (such as scratches or dirt) that do not have a depictive role, or to look at its flat surface from an oblique angle so that what it depicts appears distorted.

One of the basic ideas of thought psychology, i.e., the existence of non-depictive or non intuitive acts (also classified as the "situation of consciousness", "meaning awareness", or "thoughts", cf. Kusch 1999, 21 30), which can neither be reduced to other experiences nor, most notably, to presentations or sensations, could arguably be identified as one of the motives for this reciprocal interest.