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How to use tableau in a sentence

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To celebrate our towering achievement, here's a photographic tableau of the PDMG as it looked last Sunday, and very early on Monday morning.
The 630 guests did their part, contributing high energy and haute fashion to the rarefied party tableau.
The Big Country has tremendous scale and scenic power, but every tableau is heavy with purpose both leading up and going away.
For each face card played from a hand to the tableau layout, another card must be drawn from the deck and added to a hand.
Tenderness is pushed nearly to the point of parody in a full-dress tableau that departs from the Renaissance theme.
At the center of the tableau was the volcano's cone and its steaming crater.
It was a still and humid afternoon, with only the distant drone of the traffic on the M4 to bring sound to the tableau.
The tableau froze, motionless, and the flame of the memorial flickered out, and the stage became dark.
Placed in a wilderness of dark mountains, the scene is relieved by a flood of glaring light that holds the figures in a tableau of awful impact.
A Chinese cabinet in melon-colored lacquer features an ever-changing tableau of vases and bowls filled with seasonal flowers.
This growth pattern tends to make the tableau look like a tree diagram or organizational chart.
The protracted climax, to a faint wash of sound, is a tableau in which the motionless dancers slowly levitate.
Sculpted of polyurethane resin and acrylic paint, the tableau rests on a shallow platform about 23 feet long and 14 feet wide.
Two rampant gazelles, whose addorsed bodies cross at the hindquarters, complete the tableau.
The accompanying parade, some suspended from flying foxes, formed a subtly changing tableau.
But this provides a tableau of human tragedy which brought me up short when I realised what had happened.
The tableau is somehow as erotically charged as the close-up food-porn fried chicken ad beside it.
Or, does the seepage of the future into Eric's present suggest past, present and future flash-frozen into a tableau vivant?
Outlined in the halo of street lamps, the guardsmen resembled pieces on a chessboard, or actors in a tableau vivant of war.
The arrangement of her family is much like the arrangement of a tableau vivant, an arrangement of life fixed in place.
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Examples from Classical Literature
One can never hope to surpass the illusionary appearance of a tableau vivant.
He emerged upon an animated tableau of modern nymph and modish satyr in a close-by forest aisle.
Alice cannot forget her part in that Bombay tableau or in those lake promptings.
The tableau of a father vainly coddling a colicky babe certainly does not call for our enthusiasm.
The two, with their mules, form a tableau in front of the untenanted dwelling.
That episode flitted by, leaving on memory's camera only the degrading tableau of coin burrowed for and unobtained.
In 1456, the Adoration of the Lamb was reproduced as a tableau vivant by the chamber of rhetoric at Ghent.
As he lay with his face to the foe, the tableau vivant met his gaze the instant he opened his eyes.
Has existence only to unroll a tableau, every detail of which is graven on my heart?
By way of a climax the last number on the programme should be illustrated by a tableau vivant.
The tableau was pretty, but the pose and juxtaposition were too eloquent and evident to require explanation.
I once took part in a Greek tableau, and wore sandals and filleted hair.
It needed only the extravagant contrast presented by that gentleman to complete the tableau.
So, upon a magnificent tableau, slowly falls the lawny curtain.
We all stood stock-still for a minute, like folks in a tableau.
Behold, reader, the tableau vivant to which we would call your attention!
Who would believe that I once posed as the Discobulus in a tableau vivant?
Through his brain danced a tableau vivant of the scene in the wood.
The Ministry of Culture's tableau put up by the Sangeet Natak Akademi has bagged the coveted first prize amongst the 21 tableaux on display at the Rajpath.
A second tableau featured two women in a corral framed by visual artist Nayland Blake's wonderful set piece of a huge scrim cavered with coiled lassoes and nooses.
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