tableau

News crews, Venezuelan officials and nearby residents were drawn to a remarkable scene that offered a glimmer of hope amid the country’s otherwise dystopian tableau.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2026

One almost gets a sense that the great doers of history were like robots, temporarily inhabited by an otherworldly spiritual force or, alternatively, were stick figures that Hegel moved about on his grandiose world-historical tableau.

From Salon ● Mar. 28, 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

Our critic called it “a loosely sketched drama told via visually impeccable tableaus and a few flights of well-staged fancy.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 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

Polaroids, knick knacks and mementos are carefully arranged in various tableaus — much as he left them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 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

The British photographer Martin Parr transformed moments from the everyday world into vibrant, witty tableaux.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026

His tableaux don’t always succeed, but when they do, their strangeness hints at things beyond ordinary ken.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2026

Unlike military parades in many Western capitals, India's Republic Day also blends displays of its military capability with cultural performances and regional tableaux, projecting both power and diversity.

From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2026

Obviously it was not Lady Constance; she seemed as dismayed by the content of the tableaux as Penelope was.

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood