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The Shadow's words seemed like a living picture in her mind.

Above: Home again, and it's time to assemble all the equipment we bought into a living picture.

My life was unreeling before me, a succession of living pictures.

Suddenly the words aren't worn formulas; they're living pictures again.

This was done by film and TV: the window with a living picture in it.

"Head up, chin out, hair blowing in the wind - the living picture of a heroine."

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She is sitting in an office in Quito, the living picture of discretion.

The man fitted the description that Guffy had given him: he was a living picture gallery.

The scene is presented, momentarily, as a tableau vivant-a living picture.

As the child grew older, he grew so like his mother that he was her living picture.

In the 1860s they invented "living picture" books, "animated" by pulling a tab and moving the pictures.

The igloo and the starving woman whom Blake had abandoned formed the one living picture which he did not for a moment forget.

"Living pictures" were animated by pulling a tab to move or "animate" different parts of the scene on the page.

The purpose of the interview was to capture a living picture of a disappearing (as such) people/way of life.

Jet-black hair, shaggy and unkempt, completed the living picture.

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Living Pictures - Tink finds a way to make bookstories real after somebody reads the book.

Despite her love of art as source material, Dame Ninette's ballets were more than living pictures.

Lalo, female bicyclist, and the living pictures of Oscar Hammerstein.

The living picture suddenly vanished.

Recently, hood ornaments have become a subject of performance art, in the form of tableaux vivants, or "living pictures."

He paints a vivid living picture of the mock battles, laying emphasis on the craziness of war.

1492 didn't succeed on its music, or its jokes, or its living pictures.

Don't you know that, besides being himself, and just because he is himself, Jesus is the living picture of God?"

This tableau vivant could also be viewed from the windows of the gallery.

The closer they get to the traditional tableau vivant, the less they have to give to us.

Some photographs look like six characters trapped in a tableau vivant and searching for an author.

The show opens with all the characters in a tableau vivant from which they move out to their starting places for the plot.

Some society balls also include a tableau vivant.

Group dance and the tableau vivant at the end

Each scene begins with a tableau vivant, and at times the effect is of a painting sprung to life.

It was a tableaux vivant of small-town life.

My hideous tableau vivant, however, will function as an equally effective go-away.

This tableau vivant was far from accidental.

As the name might suggest, they resemble mixed-media novels or tableau vivant stage plays.

Next to it, on a bare white table, are an umbrella and a sewing machine arranged as a tableau vivant.

Note his sleek hair, so elegant, tableau vivant.

The museum becomes a gigantic tableaux vivant, a microcosm of the city as a whole, a world in perpetual motion.

The cast, at ease in the parlor, is frozen in a Victorian tableau vivant.

So is the elaborate tableau vivant of a clever little boy putting on a performance for an audience of seven.

Fendi took it further, transforming its Caravaggio-inspired finery into a tableau vivant.

Something that belongs to dance, sport, and the tableau vivant.")

The act ends with a tableau vivant representing the Glory of the Fairies.

This particular work is seen as a tableau vivant because of the spectacle aspect of it:

She could have impersonated Britannia in a tableau vivant and done that lady credit."

This exhibition displays an anonymous photograph of a tableau vivant of two men wrestling in a pit.

"It's more of a tableau vivant," said Simon Doonan, the company's creative director.

Balls are usually based upon a theme which is carried out through scenery, decorations, costumes, and a tableau vivant.

What follows next is a tableau vivant of high romance - and, like most romances, it has its farcical element.