All 6 Uses of
depict
in
War and Peace
- This action was so unlike her usual composure and the fear depicted on Prince Vasili's face so out of keeping with his dignity that Pierre stopped and glanced inquiringly over his spectacles at his guide.†
Chpt 1
- Anna Mikhaylovna turned up her eyes, and profound sadness was depicted on her face.†
Chpt 4 *
- A very pretty curly-headed boy with a look of the Christ in the Sistine Madonna was depicted playing at stick and ball.†
Chpt 10
- Though it was not clear what the artist meant to express by depicting the so-called King of Rome spiking the earth with a stick, the allegory apparently seemed to Napoleon, as it had done to all who had seen it in Paris, quite clear and very pleasing.†
Chpt 10
- They consisted of a box for cards, of splendid workmanship, a bright-blue Sevres tea cup with shepherdesses depicted on it and with a lid, and a gold snuffbox with the count's portrait on the lid which Pierre had had done by a miniaturist in Petersburg.†
Chpt 15
- He had dreamed that he and Uncle Pierre, wearing helmets such as were depicted in his Plutarch, were leading a huge army.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(depict) to portray (show or represent) something -- usually with a picture or words