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- noun Plural form of
depiction .
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Examples
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Manry also points out the artist draws er-Obama with a dot (or Urna) on his forehead, a symbol of enlightment or wisdom often seen in depictions of Buddha.
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Several painters and quilters who specialize in depictions of clotheslines have donated work to Project Laundry List to be auctioned off, with proceeds going to the cause.
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* Thanks, too, to the ever-scorching OTJ, who nicely underscored my point about the inherent lameness of using botanical imagery in depictions of female genitalia by e-mailing me a link to a page with more colourful descriptions.
Addendum To Vulva (Or, ‘Once You Start Talking About It, You Just Can’t Stop’) | Her Bad Mother 2007
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You've got the whole group of people (Oyate, say) that advocates very strongly for removing racist depictions from the hands of children, and if eventually the only place those books can be found is in historical collections then they become dead to children.
It's Her Party Roger Sutton 2007
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From print to stage to screen, the monster circulates in depictions of fearsome machinery and in new apparatuses of cultural production.
Reading Machines 2005
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But most similarity between depictions comes from a familiarity with famous works; Lovecraft’s descriptions leave much to the imagination.
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The depictions were a mix ... some black, some more Persian in appearance.
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The depictions were a mix ... some black, some more Persian in appearance.
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PERI: Exactly, yeah, as a journalist and as a mother I was frustrated with the kind of depictions of motherhood that I saw.
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He concluded Congress had not sufficiently shown "depictions" of dog fighting enough to justify a special category of exclusion from free speech protection.
Documenting Reality PinkPanties 2010
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