Sentence examples for dramatic tableaux from inspiring English sources
Other lowriders frequently incorporate Catholic imagery as well as icons from Aztec mythology in dramatic tableaux.
On a balmy night in the old souks of Manama, Bahrain's capital, muscular, black-clad youths chant dirges and chest-thump past shrines adorned with dramatic tableaux of Shia saints.
Among these is the Representación del nacimiento de Nuestro Señor ("Scenes of the Birth of Our Lord"), written at the request of his sister, an abbess, and consisting of a series of dramatic tableaux recounting the birth of Christ.
The piece, like its predecessors, blurs the boundary between concert hall and opera house: sometimes it resembles a series of dramatic tableaux, other times it's more like a collection of secular cantatas.
Fearing marauders and seeking to subjugate the indigenous population while making use of their labor, Zama finds his loyalties divided and his desires manipulated in a series of intensely condensed dramatic tableaux, which Martel ingeniously renders simultaneously stark and teeming.
Lila Downs, a singer who lives in Mexico City and who spent her youth in Minneapolis and southern Oaxaca, gets the idea, and her act -- there's no other word for her mannered, dramatic tableaux -- fuses traditional Mexican music with jazz and folk, and art with politics.
Today's dramatic tableau unfolded on the hot airport tarmac.
This is a very dramatic tableau, created here by Apollodorus of Damascus.
It's sort of in the Kill Bill style, where each fight is a dramatic tableau set in a picturesque location – a rainy street, a factory, a forest glen – that quickly fills with bloody corpses and snapped limbs.
In 1989 Act Up members chained themselves to a balcony in the New York Stock Exchange and unfurled a huge banner protesting the exorbitant price of AZT; they created comparably dramatic tableaus in Grand Central Terminal at rush hour and at President George H. W. Bush's vacation home in Kennebunkport, Me.
In addition, the society is staging Noel Tipton's dramatic tableau "Amherst Sabbath," which sets the poet's life to congregational hymn music; and hosting a show by the painter Alberto Mancino, who has completed twenty-nine oil paintings based on Dickinson's poetry.
