living picture
Example Sentences
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In one project for Hixson’s course, which focused on socially engaged art, students dressed up to create a tableau vivant, or living picture, re-creating Raphael’s masterpiece “The School of Athens.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2017
A great living picture has two subjects, one in the foreground and one in the background.
From The Verge ● Jul. 30, 2014
He has created in Mr. Cane a winning, living picture, full of pathos and triumphant dignity.
From Time Magazine Archive
Those who look at one side only of the living picture see in a glass darkly.
From The Gnostic Crucifixion by G. R. S. Mead
Kuhl contemplated them with folded arms and sinister countenance; were they not a living picture of that outrageous weakness of mind, the most contemptible of all passions in which jealousy finds utterance?
From Withered Leaves. Vol. II. (of III) A Novel by Rudolf von Gottschall
