A graphic or vivid verbal description.
1 His description of the two paths through life was a most beautiful word picture .
2 Mr. Bull wrote: Nearly every one of his paragraphs is a splendid word picture .
3 Harry Temple had drawn a word picture of Mrs. Leavenworth.
4 Now, take in this word picture of utter dejection:
5 A word picture of him would not be amiss.
6 He opened his address with a terror-striking word picture of hell and the prince of darkness.
7 He paints a vivid word picture of her.
8 On went the word picture that showed how vice could flaunt it in so fallen an age.
9 Any word picture of either would probably fit anyone of a score of people of the same life.
11 Paul was astonished to see the exact reproduction of the word picture painted by the black fortune-feller of Jamaica before his eyes.
12 I think perhaps the first thing is to paint you as good a word picture as I can of my geographical location.
13 Let me take you by a brief word picture to Italy, the first home of the pergola as we see it hereabouts today.
14 He gave a word picture of all the great artists who had appeared on the English stage and the merits and demerits of each.
15 This vivid word picture forms the subject of many great paintings by the older Italian masters, known under the title of the Last Judgment.
16 It was here that Dutton drew inspiration for most of his poems of Grand Canyon, weaving a word picture of the scene, awe-inspiring and wonderful.
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