be the very picture of

Devoid of context, Morse’s images of young lovers might appear to be the very picture of carefree romance.

She may be the very picture of a modern career girl, but she can’t escape the father who has turned her into an ill-tempered scold.

Add to this a firm grasp of basic sanitation practices and generations of my people not marrying their cousins, and I’d be the very picture of feminine health.

You turn round and cast suspicious glances towards a hedge, where wild flowers are growing and that you thought to be the very picture of sylvan solitude, and you see several figures dodging behind it.

When Colonel Oddminton was last in Washington a casual smoking-room acquaintance remarked, eying him with the gaze of a professional physiognomist: "If you'd shave off your chin, and keep your hat on, you'd be the very picture of Senator X——."