tableau
Example Sentences
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The staging, arranged around striking tableaux, is at once cinematic and fleetly theatrical.
From Los Angeles Times
As if Mr. Maher’s tableau weren’t enough, the evening’s varied cast now includes the champion U.S. men’s hockey team, fresh from the Olympics.
His tableaux don’t always succeed, but when they do, their strangeness hints at things beyond ordinary ken.
This is the dismal tableau today in Venezuela’s Maracaibo Basin, which, for much of the last century, was one of the globe’s leading sources of petroleum.
From Los Angeles Times
I present to you a familiar domestic tableau: a refrigerator door swinging open to reveal a crowd of condiments purchased for a single recipe.
From Salon
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