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.

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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)
They proceed across a lawn or a woodland floor in a series of these tableaux. Times, Sunday Times
Beck restaged Eakins' original tableaux using models from his own social circle, then composited them into the original photographic settings. Bill Bush: Too Many Openings, Too Little Time: This Artweek.LA (February 14-20)
Beck restaged Eakins' original tableaux using models from his own social circle, then composited them into the original photographic settings. Bill Bush: Too Many Openings, Too Little Time: This Artweek.LA (February 14-20)
An unusual project for the Hamster Theatre Company was a series of tableaux depicting great moments in British history.
The protracted climax, to a faint wash of sound, is a tableau in which the motionless dancers slowly levitate.
He painted religious tableaux, like all those Renaissance painters who'd gone before him; but to my mind Caravaggio's take on these conventionalities is essentially Modern. A Wee Happy Glow
Meteorology and topography conspire to paint blusterous murals and apocalyptic tableaux.
The souvenir shops, with their olive wood crucifixes and mother of pearl nativity tableaux, are shuttered.
The still-life arrangement of gold and snake on the table somewhat unsubtly prompted the audience to recognize the performance as a tableau vivant in which a process of active but hermetic mental transformation was taking place.
In the next section we will describe a method for finding all efficient tableaux.
There's a quaintness in these tableaux that's at first charming but eventually slides into overkill through sheer grating repetition.
His twitterview today with Jake Tapper is full of examples as he talks about Iran not so much as an actual country full of actual people doing actual things in a difficult situation, but instead as a kind of phantasmagoric canvass onto which we should paint a tableau of American hubris and militarism. this Tweet: Center for American Progress Action Fund
Like their cast-mates, both inject a level of interpretation and fluidity into their roles that stops proceedings from degenerating into some wax tableau of recent history.
Something to look at: Plastic Fantasic flickr set pictures little plastic animals in gorgeously lit tableaus (via Bibi’s Box). Plastic Menagerie : Scrubbles.net
The tremendous moral power of this solitary work lies in the fact that it is a series of terrific and fascinating tableaux, embodying the idea of inflexible poetic justice impartially administered upon king and varlet, pope and beggar, oppressor and victim, projected amidst the unalterable necessities of eternity, and moving athwart the lurid abyss and the azure cope with an intense distinctness that sears the gazer's eyeballs. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
The fourth tableau represents the Roman prison from where St Paul penned his Epistles, his instructions to early Christian communities all over the empire.
The tableau recalls his untitled work of 2001 that also features a white buck, rubbing the velvet from his rack against a polyurethane cast of a Persian rug.
Burns's handmade tableaux - in style and use of narrative anecdote - are similar to the work of fellow Houstonian, Bill Davenport.
He has filled the empty apron stage with a magical, glittering and visually delightful scenes and tableaux to follow the fall from grace of the Master and his lover.
Other breaks in the forest revealed the occasional bell-shaped Buddhist dagoba, or stupa, with its soaring-to-heaven whiteness against the otherwise fungal-green tableau. Buddha’s Savage Peace
Claude Debussy Paris, France, 1902This sensuous, Symbolist tragedy in 12 tableaux marks a radical departure: instead of arias and set pieces, the text is declaimed, inspired by Wagner, over an ever-moving orchestration. Top 50 operas
Director David Petrarca and writers/series creators Mark V. Olson and Will Scheffer handle his playground assault and its aftermath with an almost objective distance, often framing poor Wayne in a mid-range shot, so that instead of seeing his face in close-up, we see the entire tableau of his humiliation. Mark Blankenship: Big Love Wife Watch!: Season 5, Ep. 1
My children gain comfort and reassurance from me in exactly that 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.
Marsh and Swann team up, styling themselves as ‘the Gilbert And Sullivan of photography’, snapping their clients against imaginative tableau.
The whole tableau is a high school nightmare come to life. Ovechkin in Moscow with GQ
The tableaux provided interesting sidelights on different cultures.
In a row of glass cases, waxwork tableaux of Victorian surgeons are shown lopping off limbs while their patients are forcibly restrained.
For a few seconds the incident played out in tableau on the opposite sidewalk.
The water was a tableau of fishing nets and banca boats with bamboo outrigging. Imperial Grunts
Bref la "société de l'information", c'est le jeu des regards dans le tableau de de La Tour: "La diseuse de bonne aventure". Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas
Effigies of hated opponents were burned at the stake, insulting posters were pasted on walls and there were daily processions and tableaux.
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.
The city, a Los Angeles Times reporter wrote, is ‘a tableau of destroyed buildings, burned-out cars, and piles of rubble’.
progressive games, or charades, or tableaux or dancing. ADRIENNE AND THE CHALET SCHOOL
tenner" and the young ladies who had given the tableaux had been interviewed, but in neither case had the mysterious pocket been discovered. Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley
The film is composed of a series of tableaux, with scenes reminiscent of detailed paintings.
Spectators gawked from the far side of South Main, and news and television cameras captured the tableau. Burial for a King
This is a comeback and a personal project, and from the very opening frame - a gorgeous opening-title tableau - I could see Coppola straining very hard to make it count," writes Glenn Kenny. GreenCine Daily
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.
Into this upscale tableaux strode five Baluch men in soiled and unpressed shalwar kameezes, wearing turbans and topees, with stacks of papers under their arms, including the issue of The Herald with the cover story on Gwadar. Pakistan’s Fatal Shore
The film is composed of a series of tableaux, with scenes reminiscent of detailed paintings.
This growth pattern tends to make the tableau look like a tree diagram or organizational chart.
Donc, oui -- non seulement je ne m'amuse pas à suivre ces gens foncièrement inintéressants, mais en plus, je ne désire pas figurer dans leur tableau de chasse. Twitter Advertisers and Friend Collectors — Climb to the Stars
They first spent several days reading and discussing immigrants' stories from children's literature and the students started to create tableaux or frozen scenes of the immigrants' experiences.
Yet this tableau of horse-drawn omnibuses, coaches, carts, bicycles, and ubiquitous Cooks Tour advertisements is more than one of moment: it validates an epoch of Britain's prosperity and London's greatness.
Many feature elaborately costumed models posing in carefully orchestrated, dramatically lit tableaux.
Last year's Eighth Floor was not even a story, just a series of Christmas-themed tableaux, and those were constructed from the remains of previous years 'tableaux from actual stories -- if you'd been to the Eighth Floor a lot you could spot the dwarves from Snow White as elves, and the plum pudding from Mary Poppins, and like that. Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
In the next section we will describe a method for finding all efficient tableaux.
Once the initiates, who are of the receiving moiety, have seen the tableau and danced with headdresses all night long, this beautiful structure is rapidly dismantled.
In the tableau, you want to entwine flowers, candlesticks and personal objects, such as a bronze sculpture or a fleet of nutcrackers. The Host's Secret Weapon: Merciless Perfection
Finally the seasons were chased away by Father Time, ending the tableaux.
For visitors following the marked trail that leads around the battlefield, its powerful aura helps conjure up the tableaux that unfolded over a hundred years ago.
Contrast the latest products of the media's fame factory with the Washington news of the moment: the breathtakingly real seaminess of the Abramoff story, the unscripted drama of Tom DeLay's fall, even the relatively minor human tableau of the Alito hearings. Who Needs Hollywood?
Le blanc est sur la palette du peintre, comme la matière de la lumière qu'il distribue avec intelligence pour rapprocher les objets, pour leur donner du relief, & qui fait la magie de ses tableaux: à mesure que cette lumière s'affoiblit ou s'teint, les apparences changent, le prestige cesse, & la toile ne présente enfin que des plans chargés de couleurs ternes & sans expression. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Even painting, which at first sight would seem to be resistant to digitization, has become absorbed in the process, as artists mimic the look of photography and as photographers create elaborate tableaux.
That _tableau_ at the end, of the starving-coastguardsman expiring under the rack, is perfectly awful! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 22, 1892
The last tableau is of the iconic group looking down on Switzerland. The Sound of Music !!!
Unfortunately, Phantom Limb's show rarely cohered into a moving tableaux for more than a few moments. Michael Giltz: Theater: "Other Desert Cities" Found On Broadway; "69 S" Lost at BAM; "Chinglish" Doesn't Translate
Director Carmen Jakobi produced some wonderfully fresh ideas, including an excellent freeze-frame tableau from Sampiero and Domenico, engrossed in their gambling like a living embodiment of Cézanne's The Card Players, while the contemporary music ensemble Lontano played with needle-sharp precision under the decisively assured direction of Odaline de la Martinez. Così fan tutte; Dream Hunter; Commotio; Stephen Hough, LPO/Alsop – review
A Chinese cabinet in melon-colored lacquer features an ever-changing tableau of vases and bowls filled with seasonal flowers.
This would be a perfect place for anyone to hide -- among the tableaux. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
Actors dressed in black and grey create tableaux around the blond wood skeleton of a house.
But then they're all trapped, as a final tableau suggests. Times, Sunday Times
The whole tableau looks staged. Times, Sunday Times
This is a terrific showpiece for the pianist who loves to explore exotic sounds, experiment with subtle shadings and pedaling, and create a stylized tableau with careful articulation and voicing control.
The two men met in 1941, and had a collaborative relationship for two decades, producing a book, many surrealist portraits and a series of tableaux.
Elle nous peint un tableau aimable de sa vie -- toujours avec humeur. Affolement - French Word-A-Day
The mine's a museum, a heritage show; come see the pitmen in waxwork tableaux posed at the hewing and posed at their rest, in a replica setting that's deep in the past: Pitworld
The dungeon is more like a catacomb, linking a series of tableaux that expose the grisliest entrails of York's history.
Lucky for him, all these poor people still have time to line up for several thousand black-and-white shots during which they artfully arrange themselves in striking tableaux and stare into Salles' lens.
Tommy Sloane let his team of crickets escape him altogether while he stared open-mouthed at the tableau. Anne of Green Gables
_Tableau des terrains qui composent l'écorce du globe, ou Essai sur la structure de la partie connue de la terre_ (Paris, 1829); and the _Traité des arts céramiques_ (1844). Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
Only when you are attracted by the tableau to stare at it, can you find the bloodiness in the brilliant splendor. And even the bloody wounds, then, are still so attractive.
If the male nudes were inherently controversial, Hersilia draped in white like her sisters in David's tableaux of the 1780s, would seem to offer an acceptably chaste classical counterpoint.
The table is inlaid with a spotless, stainless steel board, and the tableau comes alive as the chef prepares food for diners sitting in front of him.
Rooms on its three floors have been converted into galleries displaying Gandhi's letters, documents, photographs and also tableaux about his life.
The 1963 cult film classic introduced a cast of campy and erotic voluptuaries, some of them drag queens, in a series of beautiful and delirious tableaus.
The whole tableau is set upon a rococo footed platter, white with gold wave trim, that recalls the mirrored trays of mid 20th-century suburban dresser sets.
At the center of the tableau was the volcano's cone and its steaming crater.
Two rampant gazelles, whose addorsed bodies cross at the hindquarters, complete the tableau.
The Big Country has tremendous scale and scenic power, but every tableau is heavy with purpose both leading up and going away.
`And," Judy Willoughby remarked during a brief interval, ` tableaux may be ordinary, but the ones we've chosen are anything but! ADRIENNE AND THE CHALET SCHOOL
Although the objects are decontextualized, the barren tableaux in which they are situated strangely evoke their natural environments, as the viewer's imagination is provoked to fill in the blanks.
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 room grew silent and the howl of the midnight wind was the only sound to punctuate the tableau.
Eight hours 'work coverts a lump of inert snow into a classic tableau from the Simpsons. Boing Boing: February 16, 2003 - February 22, 2003 Archives
The final two tableaux, representing the stigmata and the death of Francis, describe the arduous path of the Christian through suffering to the light of resurrection.
Parables and miracles were to be played out in tableaux and mime. PASSION IN THE PEAK
Sometimes he makes brief statements; other times he just smiles, as a sort of square-jawed presence on an otherwise humdrum tableau. Sen. John Thune says he could offer GOP more than just a fresh face in 2012
So it was that a tableau seemed to hold for uncountable minutes. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
For a few seconds the incident played out in tableau on the opposite sidewalk.
But there are also tableaux from different eras, including holidaymakers at breakfast time in a Fifties boarding house and then the same trippers enjoying a cup of tea in a beachside bathing hut.
Crewdson's pictures of the last decade offer tableau representations of a suburbia - sometimes faked through tine use of scale models gone disconcertingly off track.
She photographed both live scenes and artificial tableaux involving mannequins and wax dummies.
Haworth celebrated the Jubilee with a historical pageant of tableaux representing such events and personalities of the reign as Amy Johnson and the burial of the Unknown Warrior.
The film opens with a tableaux of a grimy industrial area where a man loiters impassively, slouching against a wall, kicking a bottle down the street, watching the wind whip up dust devils on a vacant patch of gravel.
And as part of this process, the two have conceived, designed and photographed a series of tableaux that aim to rearrange and critically portray stereotypical images of the South Indian woman.
The final tableau is movingly effective, but elsewhere there is not enough to engage the heart or sustain the memory. Times, Sunday Times
The tableau froze, motionless, and the flame of the memorial flickered out, and the stage became dark.
This is a terrific showpiece for the pianist who loves to explore exotic sounds, experiment with subtle shadings and pedaling, and create a stylized tableau with careful articulation and voicing control.
There are also a series of small table-top tableaux in painted jelutong.
The last and most significant item in our review of the tableau of educational effort among the freedmen is the increasingly friendly attitude of most of the Southern States toward this enterprise. The Education of Freedmen, part 2
The figurines are a part of a tableau set in a wood-framed box given to Martha Washington in 1783 by its creator, Samuel Fraunces, a friend of the Washington family and a man obsessed with waxwork. Once prized by Martha Washington, 'creepy' wax figurines gain new, restored life
Among the most excessive is the ravishing Vila Algarve, a rococo fantasy of curving terraces and balconies and stairways, topped off with urns and grotesques and maiolica-tiled tableaux, the whole place teetering on the verge of complete disintegration. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
Instead, they present a rich stew of often cartoonlike storytelling, gruesome caricatures and sensationalistic tableaux. The Artists Who Made a Poster a Day: Uncovering a Trove of Soviet Art
A series of tableaux powerfully suggest the story's underlying violence: Nancy's death blow freezes mid-air, and Oliver's sound thrashings are hidden from view (but not from sound) in a wooden box.
That is why Philippe de Champaigne deplores the fact that in his _Rebecca_ "Poussin n'ait pas traité le sujet de son tableau avec toute la fidélité de l'histoire, parce qu'il a retranché la représentation des chameaux, dont l'Ecriture fait mention. Since Cézanne
This would result in twelve columns of equal number of cards, as seen in tableau, _but for the following conditions_: In dealing the first eight cards, count them as you deal, from one to eight, and when any card is suitable for a foundation, or to continue a foundation, play it, counting the next card as the _following number_. Lady Cadogan's Illustrated Games of Solitaire or Patience New Revised Edition, including American Games
The method was partly inspired by the Marxian and Walrasian analysis of general equilibrium via interindustry flows, which in turn were inspired by Quesnay's Tableau Économique (1759). Leontief, Wassily W.
In Haydn's C major sonata he navigates its florid rococo embroidery with the deft assurance of a Swiss jeweler, while lending to Rachmaninoff's blustery Etude Tableau in D the grandeur its imitative bell sonorities demand.
She stood at the door observing the peaceful domestic tableau around the fire.
They were still standing there yesterday, a macabre tableau of 19 wrecked and burned-out vehicles.
This sculptured tableau is divided horizontally by the river Orontes, represented by the zigzag lines. Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
It was a keen disappointment, as I was hoping to see both little N. Aeschylus and Miss Fiske for the very first time, and I wanted the little shaver to play Baby Jesus in our traditional Nativity pantomime tableau.
But, little by little one herb and flower after the other becomes individualized -- they are artists living themselves out into hues and lines and parts of a tableau; the vine draws itself in an arabesque which is perfect _because_ self-forming; and the whole harmonize with the sway of sunlight and shadow, with rustling breeze and hurrying ant on the footpath, and chirping birds, so exquisitely that you may feel, as you never have in studying human art or in poetry, that tones, colors, curves, organisms The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
There was earlier magnificence in a series of tableaux showing Australia's ancient and modern history, and then an athletes' entrance full of such warmth that it overran by almost an hour.
Director Carmen Jakobi produced some wonderfully fresh ideas, including an excellent freeze-frame tableau from Sampiero and Domenico, engrossed in their gambling like a living embodiment of Cézanne's The Card Players, while the contemporary music ensemble Lontano played with needle-sharp precision under the decisively assured direction of Odaline de la Martinez. Così fan tutte; Dream Hunter; Commotio; Stephen Hough, LPO/Alsop – review
For the next many weeks, the Gulf Coast sky will be a constantly changing tableau of hawks and doves, vultures and vireos, flycatchers and hummingbird, warblers and waterfowl.
A lifesize tableau of five white men torturing and castrating a black man, it's a savage reminder of the brutalisation of the African-American population in the pre-civil rights era. This week's arts diary
Imagine a sort of little 'feerie', in three acts, of which the success increases from tableau to tableau: The French Immortals Series — Complete
The souvenir shops, with their olive wood crucifixes and mother of pearl nativity tableaux, are shuttered.
The score has also been slightly rearranged - the ballet opens with a tableau set to Renaissance lute music, while the third-act tarantella is moved into the first act.
The delightful tableau featured on Friday's front page, showing a pair of young ladies in the throws of an evening's divertissement, was a work of art.
These modest props formed a shabby tableau, like the den of a down-at-heel sorceress. RUSHING TO PARADISE
She stood at the door observing the peaceful domestic tableau around the fire.
The most impressive tableau is the pop-up of a large Mos Eisley spaceport where our heroes Luke and Obi-Wan first met Han and Chewie. “Star Wars: A Pop-Up Guide to the Galaxy” by Matthew Reinhart (Orchard Books, 2007) « The BookBanter Blog
Again je vous demande pardon mais l'omission du participe passé, c'est comme les bouts des doigts sur le tableau. Lievre - French Word-A-Day
The procession included a tableau of the Battle of Hastings.
Dick Reese's violin solo is to be one of our titbits and Kit Reese is in every tableau and the three small girls have the cutest flag-drill. Rilla of Ingleside
Indeed, for visitors, part of the entertainment onboard the junk ultimately came from watching Chinese crew members participate in farcical tableaux vivantes that presented a grotesque versions of Chinese customs. The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876
History is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
The killings of the crew men were enacted in tableau fashion. Spoleto Festival U.S.A.: Slave Trade in Charleston, This Time on Stage - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
Si l'on attribue ces deux tableaux au Giorgione, c'est a lui aussi qu'il faut attribuer le portrait de Vienne; si, comme feu Morelli, on attribue le tableau du Palais Pitti au Titien, il faut approuver l'attribution actuelle de notre portrait au meme maitre.” Giorgione
She reappeared, puzzlingly, in the final tableau. The Times Literary Supplement
In 1826 Cauchy, in the context of quadratic forms in n variables, used the term ‘tableau’ for the matrix of coefficients.
But the tableau dissolved and the moment passed.
The lights had been "doused" as Nat, the acting stage manager, expressed it, and only a dim glow illuminated the tableau. Dorothy Dale's Queer Holidays
This extends both to its painterly but minimalistic tableaux and to the fluid dynamism of the stagecraft. The Times Literary Supplement
Technically it really is superb, with breathtaking landscape tableaux and settings, seamlessly meshing cyber-geography with the New Zealand locations.
It contained a tableau of stuffed kittens in little dresses and suits. The Times Literary Supplement
The visible tableau reveals a dutiful father and a doting son.
It would have puzzled him to stand in tableau for the Earl of Eulogy of Abraham Lincoln
Painted with Whistler-like atmospherics, these tableaux resemble faded photographs or ghostly afterimages wiped clean of the fecundity which often characterizes the traditional still life.
Gone were the artificial and outmoded divisions into three or four acts with scene changes and elaborate tableaux.
Of the three, Rubens seems least sincere, the most theatrical in the sense that what he is offering could be a tableau set up with models.
Novelist Evelyn Waugh graphically described the tableau as ‘a wildly vivacious statue of the Abbe Faria, a Goan mesmerist of the Napoleonic era, caught here in hot bronze at the climax of an experiment, rampant over an entranced female.’
Entitled ‘A Traditional Christmas’ the presentation featured a nativity tableau, traditional carols, poems and rhymes.
Shards of luminous marine life, every shade and combination of hues, deep blue starfish and the mystically-shaped coral itself provided a living, mobile tableau in the emerald green waters.
The sepia tinted tableau is reminiscent of the opening, as a single file of prisoners traipse, gaunt and dirty, into the showers like animals to the slaughter.
The souvenir shops, with their olive wood crucifixes and mother of pearl nativity tableaux, are shuttered.
It was one spectacular show, I really enjoyed the opening tableaux and display, showcasing three thousand years of history, the highlights being the drums and the statues.
This is not quite the disaster it might be, because in some ways the house style - lots of expansive gestures repeated very, very slowly by lots of performers in tableaux - is well-suited to the grotesqueries of Gogol's story.
Thousands of curious onlookers positioned themselves along the road as well as on top of buildings enjoying the tableaux and floats as they moved in procession behind three caparisoned elephants.
Other breaks in the forest revealed the occasional bell-shaped Buddhist dagoba, or stupa, with its soaring-to-heaven whiteness against the otherwise fungal-green tableau. Buddha’s Savage Peace
Gorgeously filmed and acted, Frida reveals the autobiography in Kahlo's art by occasionally punctuating the action with tableaux based on her paintings.

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