(n.) The act or employment of laying on, or adorning with, paints or colors.
(n.) The work of the painter; also, any work of art in which objects are represented in color on a flat surface; a colored representation of any object or scene; a picture.
(n.) Color laid on; paint.
(n.) A depicting by words; vivid representation in words.
Example Sentences:
(1) The standard varies from modest to lavish – choose carefully and you could be staying in an antique-filled room with your host's paintings on the walls, and breakfasting on the veranda of a tropical garden.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Also on display in the hallway is a painting of Carson with Jesus.
(3) Antoine Comte, a lawyer for the Schloss heirs, said all the family wanted was the return of the painting.
(4) Using an oil painting by G.F. Watts displayed in the National Portrait Gallery of London, we made an attempt to diagnose the dermatological alterations recognizable.
(5) 7 male and 39 female undergraduates were alternately assigned to rooms painted red or Baker-Miller Pink.
(6) The report paints a picture characterised too often by international indifference, even over the collection and distribution of the raw data on migrant deaths.
(7) These results indicate that, following a single painting of DNFB onto Langerhans cell-deficient skin, the numbers of Lyt2+ cells do not change significantly, but do change functionally.
(8) Case mothers were more likely to report occupational exposure to metals (odds ratio [OR] = 8.0, P = 0.01), petroleum products (OR = 3.7, P = 0.03), and paints or pigments (OR = 3.7, P = 0.05).
(9) PT painting resulted in rather higher sensitivity with Triton X-100 than with sodium lauryl sulphate.
(10) On the one hand, he has used it as an opportunity to paint Ukip as demonised by a media in hock to the politically correct establishment.
(11) A Landolt ring (diameter 43.5 cm; contrast 1:1.5) served as a test stimulus; it was painted on a disc 87 cm in diameter that could be rotated in steps of 45 degrees.
(12) The streets of Jiegu are now littered with concrete remnants of modern structures and the flattened mud and painted wood of traditional Tibetan buildings.
(13) She said it was hard to tell whether the paintings were stolen to order or would be offered on the black market, but added that they would be easy to transport out of Switzerland.
(14) Was Snare genuine, was the painting stolen, was he making it up?
(15) Injuries from paint require emergency surgical débridement and exploration because of the extreme tissue toxicity of the injected material.
(16) Some art experts have petitioned against Seracini drilling through the Vasari fresco, claiming any paint found behind might have been left by another artist.
(17) The Fed is also painting itself as one of the Good Guys in the Libor scandal, pointing out that it spotted the problems in 2008, and promptly tipped off the Brits.
(18) Trauma to the hand caused by injection of paint or grease solvents results in tissue destruction and later necrosis and fibrosis.
(19) "I want to talk about Curb Your Enthusiasm instead, and the paintings of Chagall, the music of Amy Winehouse and Woody Allen films."
(20) Following exposure to white spirit vapour, the effect of the expired solvent on evidential breath alcohol equipment was investigated under controlled exposure chamber conditions and in a simulated painting exercise.
Tableau
Definition:
(n.) A striking and vivid representation; a picture.
(n.) A representation of some scene by means of persons grouped in the proper manner, placed in appropriate postures, and remaining silent and motionless.
Example Sentences:
(1) This summer a familiar tableau will play out in New York City.
(2) Each mound with its own tableau of what once were laughing, dreaming, busy human beings.
(3) At the Meadow Inn hotel, these statistics are embodied in a depressing tableau of punters slouched on stools, jabbing at flashing buttons.
(4) The Clegg-Cameron marriage in the Rose Garden last May is the tableau that sticks in the mind, but it paved the way for other extraordinary images such as Andrew Lansley and Vince Cable patting each other's arms affectionately in Downing Street , on their way into the first coalition cabinet meeting since the war.
(5) And yet despite the iconography of her glacial portraits and the tales of wicked Sir Oswald, Britain's only significant fascist (and, in case it should be forgotten, previously a leading light in the MacDonald-era Labour party), Lady Mosley's real significance rests on her supporting role in a much grander tableau: the story of the Mitford girls and the 80-year sway that they have exerted over upper-level English society.
(6) Bailey has arranged an interchangeable set of black bodies into a tableau of his choosing, rendering them voiceless and passive.
(7) Any police force would be shaken by the sight, but the grisly tableau's arrangement seemed designed to instill terror in young officers from parts of southern Mexico where superstition and belief in sorcery are common.
(8) It is the first tableau in Danny Boyle’s opening ceremony for the 2012 London Olympics: a village cricket match played out in a green and pleasant land.
(9) As I was about to soon discover, however, the epically arcane tableau of this tale would quickly be painted with even more colour.
(10) This show was evolved from the menswear equivalent in January, which was dedicated to family and had particularly photogenic ones – from grandmothers to children – as the tableau.
(11) When it's just lines on paper, the reader is in control of the experience – it's a tableau vivant.
(12) Extra loop of tRNA molecule is suggested to play a role in recognizing the corresponding amino acids and a correlation is presented between the tRNA molecules and the corresponding amino acids as tabulated by the genetic tableau.
(13) Richard went for a windmill tableau and Nancy for a moulin rouge with sugar sails, while Luis created a village scene that included a biscuit mining-wheel with choux-pastry rope.
(14) School drop-off becomes a terrible tableau of everything you want but cannot have.
(15) Others might have overplayed the irony or punched home the moral judgment too forcefully, but she sings it as though her responsibility is simply to document the song's eerie tableau; to bear witness.
(16) Or perhaps, in expressionist black-and-white, the opening tableau of Great Expectations: wind blowing Dickens's pages asunder, then a dissolve to some ghostly Thames marshes straight out of a monster movie.
(17) This was not so much ping-pong diplomacy as fists across the water, a meeting of two nations with a rather mixed history of relations, sporting and otherwise, but combining here under the Olympic boxing banner to create another delightfully arresting tableau at these Games.
(18) It was straightforward to do using free tools, with the visualisations done using Tableau Public , a free product focused on making more data free and open.
(19) Set in the 13th century, Written on Skin is a story of illicit passion with a final tableau of murder, suicide and cannibalism.
(20) The shot of the year comes early for UK audiences in 2015 – a tableau in Inherent Vice .