living picture
Example Sentences
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In one project for Hixson’s course, which focused on socially engaged art, students dressed up to create a tableau vivant, or living picture, re-creating Raphael’s masterpiece “The School of Athens.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2017
A great living picture has two subjects, one in the foreground and one in the background.
From The Verge • Jul. 30, 2014
He has created in Mr. Cane a winning, living picture, full of pathos and triumphant dignity.
From Time Magazine Archive
And his difficulties are not slight ones, for his living picture must be right from all points, and in all lights.
From Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur by Jekyll, Gertrude
And every man, practical and commonplace though he be, has before him in his quiet moments a living picture of grace and beauty, which, consciously or not, is his ideal woman.
From Threads of Grey and Gold by Reed, Myrtle
