tableau
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Cather’s generous pioneer tableau represented, to borrow her words, “the country, the conditions, the whole adventure of our childhood.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
But as the company grew, marketing its locations as a tableau in which to “stay awhile” ultimately meant there was a finite number of people they could sell coffee to per day.
From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2025
We’ve built up this idea that hosting must be an achievement, a spectacle, a tableau of labor: no shortcuts, no store-bought, no leaning on anyone.
From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2025
Thanks, baseball, for creating the tableau for the Dodgers’ 13 most memorable playoff moments, one for every win, one for every scream, one for every occasion when you thought it couldn’t get any crazier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2025
Behind me, one of them, Cora or Rita, leaves her space in the tableau and pads off towards the kitchen.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
These tableaus take place against the backdrop of an increasingly militarized vision of Christmas that permeates American pop culture.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2025
The film is a loosely sketched drama told via visually impeccable tableaus and a few flights of well-staged fancy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 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
Even so, it is the act of assembling disparate icons and references into resonant wholes that affords Saar’s sculptures and tableaux their personal and political import.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
The British photographer Martin Parr transformed moments from the everyday world into vibrant, witty tableaux.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
The London museum highlights the 18th-century painter’s rich, shadowy tableaux, emblematic of their age of intellectual discovery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 2026
The staging, arranged around striking tableaux, is at once cinematic and fleetly theatrical.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026
“Behold, the astonishingly lifelike tableaux vivant of Leeds’ Thespians on Demand!”
From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood
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The Handmaid's Tale
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