tableau

[ UK /tˈæblə‍ʊ/ ]
[ US /təˈbɫoʊ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a group of people attractively arranged (as if in a painting)
  2. any dramatic scene
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How To Use tableau In A Sentence

  • Sculpted of polyurethane resin and acrylic paint, the tableau rests on a shallow platform about 23 feet long and 14 feet wide.
  • In another moment it forged slowly past me, tolling as it were a death knell from the engine-bell and associating in my mind spectral tableaux of horrible collisions and mangled dead. A Run by Rail from Washington to St. Louis
  • This can be remedied by hybridization, that is, hybridization of modal logics enables the formulation of uniform tableau, Gentzen, and natural deduction systems for wide classes of logics. Hybrid Logic
  • The 630 guests did their part, contributing high energy and haute fashion to the rarefied party tableau.
  • These tautly stretched lines consist of single strands of horsehair, arranged in an elegant composition that brings to mind the great horizontal tableaux of Barnett Newman.
  • Inside, life-size tableaux re-create moments in history, like Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery meeting the native Nez Perce.
  • Each scene has the feeling of a solemn ceremony or, at times, an historical tableau.
  • The impeccably judged final tableau, returning to that much copied song, catches you in the pit of the stomach. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was a still and humid afternoon, with only the distant drone of the traffic on the M4 to bring sound to the tableau.
  • By carefully amalgamating myth with certain breakthroughs and future possibilities in the field of biotechnology and telecommunications as described in many sf stories we made attractive tableaux to lure the public and then to educate them about S&T principles and background. MIND MELD: Guide to International SF/F (Part II)
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