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[ UK /pɪktˈɔːɹɪəl/ ]
[ US /pɪkˈtɔɹiəɫ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a periodical (magazine or newspaper) containing many pictures
ADJECTIVE
  1. evoking lifelike images within the mind
    graphic accounts of battle
    pictorial poetry and prose
    a vivid description
    a lifelike portrait
  2. pertaining to or consisting of pictures
    pictorial records
    pictorial perspective

How To Use pictorial In A Sentence

  • So, the system of existential graphs actually requires three dimensions for its representations, although the third dimension in which the torus is embedded can usually be represented in two dimensions by the use of pictorial devices that Peirce called “fornices” or “tunnel-bridges” and by the use of identificational devices that Peirce called Nobody Knows Nothing
  • This brushpot typifies the pictorial quality characteristic of so many later vessels, which were often worked as if the surface of the jade were a sheet of paper or a scroll to be unrolled.
  • Thorwaldsen, Crawford excelled in _basso-rilievo_, and was a remarkable pictorial sculptor. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858
  • Copyright law does extend protection to useful objects if the object contains pictorial, graphic or sculptural features.
  • An empirically well informed philosopher makes the cognitivist case against pictorialism. His Name Was Do Re Mi
  • The pictorialist landscapes expressed the value of formal qualities that were anathema to establishment photographers.
  • The emphasis overall is on emotional veracity over ritual, naturalness over pictorialism. Rodney Punt: Madame Butterfly Takes Wing in Santa Fe
  • Pictorial representations of women can carry all kinds of subtle hints and messages, can indeed convey a whole world-view of meaning.
  • That structure stresses open communications and collaboration, and it humanizes the organization by eliminating the number and pictorial importance of levels.
  • In the miniatures of an Alexandrian "Chronicle of the World", written probably during the fifth century we already find pictorial representation of the omophorion. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
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