Example sentences for: tableau

How can you use “tableau” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Hannah Höch said she discovered its possibilities when she saw a kitsch tableau of German military glory; the idealized soldier had her landlord's face pasted on.

  • The Washington Post reported that Shepard was "strung up on a fence to die in a grotesque tableau."

  • A cowboy swings his lariat before a rearing white horse and, for a second, you're caught by the power and careful balance of the tableau.

  • As in Career Girls , scenes are reduced to a single shot, a single tableau, but LaBute's compositions are rigid and airless: they call attention to their own wit, and to the fact that the characters' destinies are fixed.

  • The physical tableau is striking: Netanyahu and Clinton, both "tall and hale" (thanks, NYT ), beside the ailing Arafat in his inevitable headdress and frail, bald King Hussein of Jordan.


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