Example sentences for: tableau

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

  • 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.

  • Nor is the vividness of this tableau entirely diminished when one notes that, as here used, excrement is a synonym for hair .

  • 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.

  • Museums that will appeal to children are the Fry Model Railway Museum at Malahide Castle Estate (see page 75), while the National Wax Museum (Granby Row, Dublin 1; Tel. 872 6340) has a special “Children’s World” tableau depicting well-known fairy-tale characters and a Hall of the Megastars devoted to pop musicians.

  • 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.


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