Sentence examples for tableau in which from inspiring English sources

Messiaen's great epiphany occurs in the fifth tableau, in which Francis meets a Musician Angel on the road.

And the book ends with a creepy tableau, in which we see two girls lying on a bed: one asleep, the other wild-eyed and screaming.

This tableau, in which no one speaks or makes eye contact, is the film's only moment to convey the magnitude of a loss that is beyond words.

It is a venue with possibilities, and an opening tableau in which eight cast members rush onstage pitching patent cures for a catalog of unpleasant ailments is promising.

Each of the paintings is a stagey tableau in which -- in a chiaroscuro style derived from Caravaggio -- the figures are highlighted against a dark indoor or outdoor setting.

There is even one brazen tableau in which the performers (male and female) pose with invitational menace like the sullen taxi dancers in Bob Fosse's staging of "Charity".

She creates fantastic-looking, costumed tableaux in which the childish and the adult get horribly intermingled.

He creates tableaus in which is own unclothed body, often in multiple exposure, acts the parts of religious scenes.

A very different kind led to the Westminster tableaus in which a powerful media empire for once found itself accountable.

And running throughout, in illustration of the Homeric theme of wandering, is a series of tableaux in which parka-clad figures stand in snowbound Alaskan settings.

The sections are separated by fading light or stark blackouts, showing us brief tableaus in which the dancers seem to explore their own relationship with ballet.