It has built itself into the closest thing we have to a definitive picture of reality.
Those figures include the amount paid to limited partners and unrealized gains, meaning that the measure does not give a definitive picture of the distributed profits.
Futurology attempts to provide a definitive picture of the future.
We are a long way from a definitive picture of Islamic production through the ages' (Rogers 2005, 25)
The selecting process for all these different views, including what is more or less important, needs time to give a definitive overall picture of structuralism.
The record of this period of his life is too vague for historians to form any definitive picture.
"I don't expect to get any definitive picture this year, so it's going to be a series of ad hoc negotiations stretching off into the future."
She kept her head bowed, presenting the definitive picture of dejection.
However, there are more definitive pictures of them on parade, albeit if only be a little.
Once a definitive picture of it was produced, it was given its own phylum.