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pictorial representation

n. visual representation as by photography or painting [syn: picturing]

Usage examples of "pictorial representation".

After all, when one received a card postmarked The Potala, Lhasa, or The East Pier, Sri Lanka, it wouldnt hurt to see a bit of pictorial representation on the front once in a while.

This pictorial representation of the zodiac was probably the origin, as M.

Each one of the tiles is a pictorial representation of one of the alien messages.

Acts which aroused great emotion on the part of the actors could impress upon the scene of those acts pictorial representation of the events.

This is another of the few myths which have an identifiable pictorial representation on cylinder seals.

But it would seem that writing nowhere began as an attempt to represent speech it began as a direct pictorial representation of what was to be expressed.

There is something about a simple pictorial representation on a flat sheet of solid material that enables it to overcome the most tangled linguistic barriers.

A pictorial representation took shape, so abbreviated that it was hard to follow.

Calliope stared out the window at the stately curve of the Sydney Harbor Bridge, an arc of lights like a pictorial representation of a Bach fugue.