Sentence examples for animated tableau from inspiring English sources
The most interesting pieces possess a theatrical quality, making each an animated tableau.
The 1946 music variety show – part vaudeville, part musical, part animated tableaux – was a campy tour of scenes and old-time songs through the earliest days of Cornell, from the university's land-grant origins and its founding through the first Spring Day in 1901.
The building went in the 1920's, leaving behind only its ornamental clock with a tableau of animated figures that still keeps clangorous time on the square.
The tableaus became animated, then developed a dramatic form, and finally were detached from the Eucharistic procession to form one of their own.
In Robert Jessel's lively tableaux, imaginary space is populated by expressionistically animated objects, some recognizable and others purely imaginary.
Four middle-aged women, all members of the fast-disappearing Venetian lace industry, performed a tableau of the magi; a younger group of women animated a fierce, noisy, boisterous scenario of Christ's entry into Jerusalem; parents and children cradled each other in a variety of pietá and most movingly a single elderly women performed a slow and immensely dignified dance of the crucifixion.
They were fantastically animated.
