tableaux vivants
- plural of tableau vivant.
Example Sentences
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The creamy pastel splendors of her house, with its tableaux vivants, harp music, and girls dressed like Greek nymphs or Georgian wedding cakes do not disguise the moral stench of her person.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2017
Early on, these were epic surrealistic tableaux vivants washed in unearthly colors with names like “Folding,” “Near the Terrace” and “Behind Resonance.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2014
With its growling soundtrack, monochrome visuals and surreal tableaux vivants, this owes more to Lynch and Buñuel than to Michael Reeves.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 13, 2013
Mr. Bonello and Ms. Deshaies scrutinized many paintings, including lesser-known ones, not with an eye to recreating tableaux vivants but in search of telling details: attire, poses, the quality of light.
From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2011
The Passion Play represents the closing scenes in the life of Christ, and sometimes includes, as it does this year, tableaux vivants of incidents in the Old Testament.
From Harper's Young People, June 22, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
