"Depiction" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... resultant portrait is either that of a martyred Magdalene, or, at the very least, has all the enigmatic piquancy of a Monna Lisa... Not a slut, but what is a hetaera; and not a hetaera, but what is well-nigh Kypris herself! I know of but one depiction in all literature that possesses the splendour of implacable veracity as well as undiminished artistry; where the portrait is that of a prostitute, despite all her tirings and trappings; a depiction truly deserving to be designated a portrait: the portrait ...
— Yama (The Pit) • Alexandra Kuprin
... a depiction of "Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater," with Eva's fair head sticking out of an immense paper pumpkin shell. Nat's face, in the character of Peter, was in a most satisfactory smile, consequent, probably, upon his ability to "keep her very well," and it was surely a very funny picture. Eva ...
— Dorothy Dale's Queer Holidays • Margaret Penrose
... far better that someone fast with television programming filling their minds than to not fast at all. I keep a library of positive VHS tapes for these addicts—comedies, stories of heroic over-comings, depiction's of humans at ...
— How and When to Be Your Own Doctor • Dr. Isabelle A. Moser with Steve Solomon
... ever, have we seen or read anything which approaches the stories in this book for real, true depiction of character of the Southern darkey of the present day. They are full of humor and entertainment, and absolutely true to life both as to the incidents related, and the language used. The latter is so true, in fact, that our compositor who set the type for the book, said that he had never ...
— The Blunders of a Bashful Man • Metta Victoria Fuller Victor
... in its wording. Blackmail? Probably. The "pronto" was significant. This message could hardly have come from Beth's "bandy-legged buzzard." He knew little of movie camera men, but imagined them rather given to the depiction of villainies than the accomplishment of them. And a coward who would prey upon an old woman and a child could hardly be of the metal to attempt such big game as McGuire. The mystery deepened. The buzzard was now a hawk. "Hawk," whatever ...
— The Vagrant Duke • George Gibbs |
