tableau

As we left the area, we saw a tableau of suffering with families dotted around seeking shelter under scrawny trees.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

The exquisite comic reversal of the Turkey episode was that, this time, he was no longer directing the tableau.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026

You can feel it in the way Emily looks out her father’s window to the lake beyond, the wintery tableau both tranquil and poignant.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2025

But as the company grew, marketing its locations as a tableau in which to “stay awhile” ultimately meant there was a finite number of people they could sell coffee to per day.

From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2025

The tableau of a little boy engaged in mental combat with a judge, doctor, or college professor some eight or ten times his age was often greeted with mirth and wonder.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

As it is, the movie is more a succession of historical tableaus than a richly conceived drama.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Anadol refers to these large-scale, shimmering tableaus as “digital sculptures.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026

These tableaus take place against the backdrop of an increasingly militarized vision of Christmas that permeates American pop culture.

From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2025

Following the processions, the bonfire societies burned their tableaus and let off fireworks in their respective fields.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2024

Millet had planned an elaborate series of explosive “set pieces,” fireworks affixed to large metal frames shaped to depict various portraits and tableaus.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

These highly detailed tableaux of laundromats speak to immigrant life as characters from East Asian mythology and Mexican traditions tumble around washers, buy detergent from vending machines, and mingle in laundry baskets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

In her tidy Alhambra home studio, she meticulously assembles out-of-this-world tableaux in saturated, punchy hues.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026

Wright manages his scene like Classical or biblical tableaux, but his subject and cast are as modern as the philosopher’s machines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 2026

The staging, arranged around striking tableaux, is at once cinematic and fleetly theatrical.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026

She had always enjoyed the theatrical aspects of her profession: performing, posing, composing tableaux, directing acts.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole