not a true picture

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Mr. Fletcher said the income reported on his tax returns was not a true picture of his earnings, and that he had millions of dollars in deferred compensation.

From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2011

I do not quite see—" "Your day is not a true picture of life such as you would make it.—Let me see!

From Paul Faber, Surgeon by MacDonald, George

The reader will determine for himself if this is not a true picture of the operations of the last seventy years.

From The slave trade, domestic and foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished by Carey, H. C. (Henry Charles)

Most modern Russian novelists look upon the historical novel as a faux genre, or a sort of fancy dress ball in literature, a mere puppet show, not a true picture of life. 

From Reviews by Wilde, Oscar

I told him that my opinion coincided with half of that account, that he was undoubtedly squalid, but if by his figure was meant, as in French, his countenance, it was not a true picture.

From George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life by Roscoe, E. S.