Sentence examples for extraordinary tableau from inspiring English sources

Rather, it saw an extraordinary tableau: a president criticizing six justices to their faces in harsh and specific terms.

The extraordinary tableau Wednesday at the United Nations underscored a stark new reality: the United States is facing the prospect of having to share, or even cede, its decades-long role as the architect of Middle East peacemaking.

As Aldridge struggles to bring reality to stage encounters, he is enveloped in an extraordinary tableau of 19th-century gestural theatre: hands shade eyes and cup ears; arms wave in the air like multiple tarantulas.

Where every frame of the original was soaked in that despairing brimstone which Ferrara sweats all over his films, the Herzog signature only emerges some way into this film, in one extraordinary tableau of surreal horror, which kicks the film up into a higher order of imagination.

The shifting stage geometries here are extraordinary, and the tableau on which the ballet ends is one of tremendous tension.

It is given life in an extraordinary series of tableaus that find the characters suddenly illuminated, crouched fetally or reaching out or dancing together clumsily in a state of mutual surprise.

All the drinking, arguing and brooding, which in lesser hands might have produced oppressive and unvarying dreariness, somehow adds up to a tableau of extraordinary vividness and variety.

Then as John Mark Ainsley begins "Comfort ye", a small boy (Max Craig) skips into this collage of private crises and collective anticipation, our guide through a series of tableaux celebrating ordinary and extraordinary miracles and sorrows.

It also serves as a vivid introduction to the sheer weirdness and daring of this museum created by the Answers in Genesis ministry that combines displays of extraordinary nautilus shell fossils and biblical tableaus, celebrations of natural wonders and allusions to human sin.

In addition, the books of the Platonists provided him with a metaphysical framework of extraordinary depth and subtlety, a richly-textured tableau upon which the human condition could be plotted.

Yet follow the story through its visual tableaux and you have an extraordinary exploration of what it is to be tamed.