Example sentences for: tableau

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

  • Picasso can virtually copy a Matisse tableau without producing anything like the same effect.

  • 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.

  • In fixing his attentions solely on an extreme close-up in "Charles, Earl Spencer," I think David Plotz may have overlooked the larger 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.

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


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