depictive
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There is the same fascination with factual detail, the same conviction that depictive accuracy stands as the warrant of what Ms. Johnson calls a “reverence for the cosmos.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
Is this accurate—or is Tisdale, the memoirist, learning her lesson about depictive politesse?
From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2016
It doesn’t aim to be as physically depictive as that work, nor as impressionistic as Debussy’s “La Mer,” to which Mr. Adams alludes in the colors of his glisteningly alluring piece.
From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2014
A motion picture depictive of the life of the Blessed Virgin is now in preparation by The Catholic Art Association, which has been making Catholic pictures for seven years.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here is the picture: myself—as a schoolboy—being tied up with ropes depictive of Greek, Latin, Euclid, and other cutting and disagreeable items.
From The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Newnes, George
