Sentence examples for war tableau from inspiring English sources

In March a Civil War tableau brought $5,625 at Sotheby's in New York.

In the midst of the Dutch and Spanish dignitaries in the foreground of Diego Velázquez's war tableau "The Surrender of Breda," there is a small open space beneath one soldier's horizontal weapon.

Her father's secret war paints a tableau of an evasive figure.

War was celebrated in tableaus of soaring planes and advancing tanks.

Less a coherent story than a series of tableaux, "Opium War" was staged outside the theatre, as well as inside, where the public was led by guides into rooms decorated with old Japanese movie posters, blown-up details of erotic woodblock prints, lurid comic books, and props that seemed to have been lifted from a nineteen-twenties whorehouse.

In the US television audiences are expected to have reached an early Games peak here – combined with the evening swimming finals – as American, Russian and Chinese sporting interests collided in what was in the end a rather nostalgic tableau of cold war era Lycra-tensions.

Some nostalgic souls choose to recall a rosier tableau: an anti-war protest movement of peace and love.

For a few decades following the Civil War, his lively, anecdotal, figurative tableaus known as Rogers Groups sold by the tens of thousands to middle- and upper-middle-class folks for about $15 apiece.

For a few decades following the Civil War his lively, multifigure tabletop tableaus, known as Rogers Groups, sold by the tens of thousands to middle- and upper-middle-class folks for about $15 apiece.

Mr. Marcus's concerns military torture; Mr. Abeles's presents suicide bombers; Ms. Chernow renders a cemetery tableau about oil and war.

Nov. 22 BETWEEN TWO WORLDS The director Vimukthi Jayasundara contemplates the Sri Lankan civil war through a series of symbolic tableaus.