tableau
Example Sentences
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Wright manages his scene like Classical or biblical tableaux, but his subject and cast are as modern as the philosopher’s machines.
The London museum highlights the 18th-century painter’s rich, shadowy tableaux, emblematic of their age of intellectual discovery.
The staging, arranged around striking tableaux, is at once cinematic and fleetly theatrical.
From Los Angeles Times
As if Mr. Maher’s tableau weren’t enough, the evening’s varied cast now includes the champion U.S. men’s hockey team, fresh from the Olympics.
His tableaux don’t always succeed, but when they do, their strangeness hints at things beyond ordinary ken.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
