tableau
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McFARLAND, Calif. — A white SUV drives past fields of grapes and nut trees and pulls to a stop on the dirt shoulder across the highway from a strange tableau:
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
As we left the area, we saw a tableau of suffering with families dotted around seeking shelter under scrawny trees.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
A group of people were gathered around a large dining table beneath a massive chandelier of antler, a tableau that evoked some kind of Viking summit.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
The surrounding landscape—a moody tableau of steel-gray skies and jagged mountains—is the work of AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
Dick and Jane, Sally and Spot, Mother and Father, the Mailman, the Milkman, and the Policeman smiled their way through tableau after tableau, their clean, healthy, primary-colored world flat and shadowless.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
As it is, the movie is more a succession of historical tableaus than a richly conceived drama.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
These tableaus take place against the backdrop of an increasingly militarized vision of Christmas that permeates American pop culture.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2025
Polaroids, knick knacks and mementos are carefully arranged in various tableaus — much as he left them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2025
Following the processions, the bonfire societies burned their tableaus and let off fireworks in their respective fields.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2024
Millet had planned an elaborate series of explosive “set pieces,” fireworks affixed to large metal frames shaped to depict various portraits and tableaus.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
They first went viral in 2020, and they have been a hit since, towering over yards across America in all kinds of inventive tableaux.
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2026
Hermetically sealed tableaux of haughty models daring you to look away from their perfection.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
In her tidy Alhambra home studio, she meticulously assembles out-of-this-world tableaux in saturated, punchy hues.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026
His tableaux don’t always succeed, but when they do, their strangeness hints at things beyond ordinary ken.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2026
When all eyes are on the tableaux beside us, she lifts me up and staggers toward the amphitheater door.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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