How to Use depiction in a Sentence

depiction

noun
  • If anything, this change feels reductive, harkening back to the series’ often flat and stereotypical depiction of women.
    Isaiah Colbert, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Unlike her wryly astute essays, the playwright scarcely reckons with the thorny nuances of mourning, and instead settles for a rather pat depiction of grief.
    Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The Raft of the Medusa, a depiction of an 1816 shipwreck in which the captain abandoned scores of passengers to die.
    WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The play’s impact was in its depiction of male softness.
    Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Still, a glitchy depiction of legs would quickly break your sense of immersion in the VR realm.
    Chris Welch, The Verge, 15 Sep. 2023
  • In Lin’s depiction, though, the workers do triumph, in a gruesome sort of way.
    Beatrice Loayza, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The book, which was made into the 2009 movie Precious includes depictions of rape.
    Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 16 Aug. 2023
  • One of the early depictions of baboons dates back to the first dynasty, a small statue known as the Narmer baboon.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The earliest depictions of the saint depict him in blue robes and garments.
    Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 15 Mar. 2024
  • But just how accurate is the show's depiction of the business-side of fine dining?
    Nicolas Vega, CNBC, 17 July 2024
  • The reality is that some give a sci-fi depiction of AI.
    Sol Rashidi, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2024
  • Both of those depictions were partial, or seen from a distance.
    Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 26 June 2024
  • The biggest liberty the movie takes is in its depiction of Jordan’s agent, David Falk.
    Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2023
  • It’s known from depictions on tombs that scribes often sat, knelt, or stood while working away at their tablets.
    Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2024
  • The lab moved beyond mental health depiction to focus on cast and crew and their own well-being.
    Malina Saval, Variety, 26 Apr. 2023
  • And a sculptural depiction of a stupa, carved in relief on a limestone panel, opens the show.
    Holland Cotter, New York Times, 21 July 2023
  • The second is a fond depiction of London’s lower-middle-class Jews—fond, that is, for its time.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The Big Cigar is both a depiction of that fraught affinity and a cannily self-aware product of it.
    Judy Berman, TIME, 30 May 2024
  • The show's depiction found Cookie knowing about Andre in the summer of 1980.
    Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 7 Aug. 2023
  • One of her contributions to the show is a charmingly chaotic depiction of the busy block of Sawtelle.
    Leigh-Ann Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2024
  • The depiction of Veruca Salt’s father, in that same book, sails close to Jewish stereotypes.
    Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2022
  • So in this way, then, the latest film foregoes much of the environment, depiction, and framework fans of the series came to know and love.
    Mark Hughes, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • And Poison shows Dahl’s debt to Rudyard Kipling in a knowing depiction of the empire’s defects.
    Armond White, National Review, 15 Mar. 2024
  • There is the slight tilt of the head, which recalls countless depictions of the Madonna, but also the wry smile that dispels any whiff of sanctity.
    Anna Mundow, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Home Alone’s depiction of the relationship between Kevin and his mom is the classic case.
    Gregory M. Collins, National Review, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Does Will Smith’s Oscar slap negate the winning big-screen depiction of the Williams sisters and the man who trained them towards iconic careers?
    Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 8 Apr. 2023
  • This book is the most ruthless depiction of marooned humans on an alien planet.
    Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 11 July 2023
  • Though even that is slightly more plausible than his depiction of a Brit who actively roots for the Knicks.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 13 May 2023
  • The film has already raised threats of legal action from the Trump camp for its depictions of plastic surgeries and the rape of his first wife, Ivana, played by Maria Bakalova.
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2024
  • The album artwork showcases a depiction of the fashion-forward artist draped in a sheer scarf with a white and blue floral print.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 3 May 2024

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