Sentence examples for tableau set from inspiring English sources

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.

This is but the first of several coup de théâtre including a "helicopter" flying over the audience, aswirl in smoke and spotlights, a buoy bobbing across the stage, and a tragicomic sitting-room tableau set in a submerged room of cockeyed Caligari-esque angles.

The whole tableau, set against an artfully styled modern backdrop, could have been a scene in a romantic comedy — the one about an It girl who ditches her Manhattan bachelorette pad for a wholesome family life in Brooklyn, all without ever losing her passion, her friends or her panache.

He said that he felt he may have got carried away with the film's high Germanic romanticism, with the first 10 minutes devoted to a series of visually arresting, apocalyptic tableaux set against the complete Prelude to Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.

If a formula A∧B is on the right column of the main tableau, the set of tableaux splits into two new sets of tableaux: one whose main tableau lists A on its right column and one whose main tableau lists B on the right column.

The residents cavort like spoiled courtiers, and Sade is permitted to stage a sadomasochistic tableau vivant set in a harem and depicting the "joys of captivity".

Auteurist fans were baffled - there didn't seem to be any obvious Egoyan preoccupations in this curious tableau vivant set in an apocryphal Belgian hamlet.

Elaborate tableaux are set up depicting scenes from Hindu stories and are similar to the nativity scenes that one sees around Christmas.

Women's Wear Daily reports that the shoe designer is teaming up with Crazy Horse, the Parisian cabaret, to create original tableaux (stationary sets) for the nightclub's "Desirs" show.

Dybek brings serious talent to bear in depicting both the larger tableau and smaller set pieces, including a flashback in which the town's roughest resident goes on a disastrous boyhood hunting trip with his father.

Shaw is only following current practice here, in providing a scene-setting tableau vivant.