Example sentences for: tableaux

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

  • The Darger watercolors on exhibit include both peacetime tableaux of tiny lassies, some naked, some in dresses, disporting themselves among butterflies and enormous flowers and odd little birds--and scenes of maniacal carnage, in which the same tiny lassies are strangled naked (distorted faces, tongues stuck out) and disemboweled by merciless Glandelinians.

  • By 1945, he was making large tableaux of what he called hieroglyphics: fields of human figures, symbolic objects, and words, many of them in invented languages.

  • (Click to see A Harvest .) Yet students of these photos noticed some time ago that the same corpses seem to show up in different places on the battlefield, and they concluded that the photographer had "arranged" the dead in order to achieve pleasing tableaux.

  • Chambers, in other words, is one of the most controversial Americans of the last half-century, his life a story rife with histrionic tableaux, profound ideological warfare, and high-level scandal.

  • The only things that look distinctive at first are Baron von Gloeden's and Wilhelm Plüschow's pedophilic tableaux of Greek and Italian youths decked out in laurel wreaths.


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