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
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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 Gottschall, Rudolf von
But the creative mind builds up a living picture out of the thousands of aspects most of us are congenitally blind to.
From Amaryllis at the Fair by Jefferies, Richard