Sentence examples for like a tableau from inspiring English sources

The party looked like a tableau vivant of Monocle's tiny but influential band of followers.

"Her bedside table is like a tableau from Macy's windows," he said.

For the past two weeks, the images emerging from Ferguson, Missouri, have seemed like a tableau of sixties history.

The platter, just a little smaller than a surfboard, headed toward my table like a tableau of shame.

Thus opens "Sty of the Blind Pig" at Hartford Theaterworks, a solid, poignant production that feels like a tableau vivant of saddened people left behind.

It seemed, at first, like a tableau from the last days of the U.S.S.R., those heady months when glasnost swelled the streets with protesters.

Like a tableaux designed by Henri Rousseau for Raymond Roussel, the jungle from his 1905 Palace of the Arabian Nights is a crazy assemblage of pasteboard palm trees, sliding panels of foliage, humanoid monkeys, dancing skeletons and a mechanised smoke-breathing dragon.

The swampy reed plantations of Wolin Island may look like a tableaux from Europe's distant past but if scientists, farmers and biotech companies are to be believed, this idyllic pastoral setting could be the face of a hi-tech and low carbon agricultural future.

He also loved to show a group of dancers slowly accumulating, like coral, into a tableau, only to disintegrate.

Purchased by the National Gallery of Australia in 1976, this oil painting shows five figures, "posed like statues in a tableau vivant, [and who] possess a kind of erotic energy".

It was arranged like a "framed tableau," Wullschlager says.