Though he mixes fact with imagination, he provides a lively picture of an English country house of the time.

It makes a striking and lively picture from whatsoever point you contemplate it.

They give a lively picture of her attempts to balance her literary career with her marriage to her brilliant but volatile husband.

Fêtes' is a very lively picture of a group of people having a celebration and dancing.

A lively social picture of criminality in postwar Britain, with the Krays and other crooks.

Never was there a livelier picture of youthful rivalship, with bewitching beauty for the prize.

Mr. Chudacoff offers a lively picture of the development of age consciousness in urban middle-class culture.

That, at least, is what comes across in his liveliest pictures (Johnson).

These all contribute to a rich and lively picture of Elizabethan daily life.

Plutarch gives a detailed account of it, with a lively picture of the palace.