What is "depicts"

Usage examples of "depicts".

On closer examination, this notion turns out to be seriously flawed—so seriously that we need not assume the map drawn by Admiral Piri Reis depicts Queen Maud Land as it looked millions of years in the past.

Meanwhile, let us note that the Nazca spider also accurately depicts a member of a known spider genus—Ricinulei.

I mean it’s a perfect match—faultless—and it cannot be an accident because the entire arrangement correctly depicts two very unusual celestial events that occurred only at that time.

Remarque records a German playing the theme from Beethoven's Fidelio that depicts the prisoners -- unjustly held by a tyranny -- as they are at last, for a moment, let up to see the light -- playing this as a team of Jewish concentration camp victims are led down the street past his house.

A large wall hanging covers the north wall and depicts a strikingly beautiful Pestula standing in a field of withered grain.

One of the very few exceptions I know of is the noted sf writer Theodore Sturgeon's novel Venus Plus X (1960), which depicts a Utopia in the classic sense, complete with universal brotherhood, understanding, intelligence, love and no dissenters in sight.

Ballard depicts in a short story, The Subliminal Man, an even more ingenious way to keep consumption up and people down.

This method is brought further in his novel The Night Land (1912), which depicts a world of total darkness millions of years hence, peopled with monstrous beasts and the remnants of humanity living in metal pyramids.

William Tenn has described the very complicated sexual system of a species that has no less than seven sexes in Venus and the Seven Sexes (1949), a hilarious story that depicts a truly alien way of propagating the species, and the same author's The Masculine Revolt (1965) is set in a not so future U.

At some point between 1887 and 1889, Sickert completed a painting he titled It All Comes from Sticking to a Sol­dier - the painting that depicts music-hall performer Ada Lundberg singing as she is surrounded by leering men.

This is evident from his frequent references to women as "skeletal" or "the thinnest of the thin like a little eel" and in the big women with wide hips and grotesquely pendulous breasts that he repeatedly depicts in his art.

The most violent amateurish drawing in this collection depicts a bosomy woman in a low-cut dress sitting in a chair, her hands bound be­hind her, her head thrown back as a right-handed man plunges a knife into the center of her chest at the level of her sternum.

Sickert made the sketch in 1920, and it depicts a bearded male figure talking to a prostitute.

In a painting of his called The Fair at Night, Dieppe, the scene he depicts looks very much like what one might expect to see when spectators surrounded the East End locations where the murders took place.

At some point between 1887 and 1889, Sickert completed a painting he titled It All Comes from Sticking to a Soldier - the painting that depicts music-hall performer Ada Lundberg singing as she is surrounded by leering men.