Sentence examples for to depict something from inspiring English sources

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I wanted to depict something more realistic but still entertaining.

I just wanted to depict something the way it is.

"Basically, illustration serves to depict something that already exists as a verbal idea.

But he is blind to the abuse of power when it is in his own interest, and doesn't hesitate to force Tristana into bed (although Buñuel, charmingly prudish in his own manner, never deigns to depict something as vulgar as a sex scene).

As the immigrants talk wistfully about their lives, a second screen shows close-ups of a woman painting little scenes in the stairwell of a down-at-the-heels apartment building; as it is finished, each scene turns out to depict something from the interview.

"The mouse metaphor allowed me to universalise, to depict something that was too profane to depict in a more realistic way, but my father's personal trajectory was also relatively small… I mean, I read about Treblinka, where there were no survivors [see footnote].

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On the negative side, Tom Breinan of Pitchfork Media wrote that Rihanna "comes closer than usual to depicting something resembling human emotion, but she still comes off sounding like a robot programmed to impersonate Alanis Morissette".

But we know too that they depict something we might never see.

They are theatrical because they depict something happening – they contain a sense of drama, implying sequence.

We're looking for pictures which depict something of the town the torch was carried through, its community and what the ceremony means to its people.

As it happens, though, this story does depict something that I might not realize it was depicting had I not written "The Girl at the Baggage Claim" — that is the emotional life of a highly interdependent family.

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