marionette

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• Some merchants offer suspended paper marionettes that in skilled hands can be made to dance and gyrate from the end of a string.
• The exquisite design work and miniature sets, and the jerky marionettes with eerily lifelike physiognomies, never looked better than in these two grand features.
• I almost saw Don Giovanni performed by marionettes - the Czech marionette tradition is one of the best in Europe!
• Puppet shows using glove and hand puppets, shadow puppets, and marionettes are performed there, depicting stories from Uzbek history.
• For clarification, Teresa was explaining to the class that they were going to be like marionettes hanging by the strings.
• I would make you take me to Mexico and buy me a taco and a margarita and a Mexican bandito marionette and a black velvet Elvis painting. Yes I Would
• As if the harrowing play weren't strong enough on its own, he not only adds multiple jazz interludes with a piano-and-horn trio and several singers, he also swamps it in Japanese theatrical techniques: Black-garbed stagehands move furniture and dispense props as in bunraku marionette theater. French 'Streetcar' Takes a Detour Via Japan
• Notwithstanding the praise of the critics, his King Henry V. is a wooden marionette; the intense life of the traditional madcap Prince has died out of him; but Prince Arthur lives deathlessly, and we still hear his childish treble telling Hubert of his love. The Man Shakespeare
• Crowds soaked up the glorious weather as colourful floats, marionettes, a brass band, classic cars and a fire engine wound their way through the town.
• In Movement of Animals Aristotle likened the body's actions to those of a marionette, in that the bones correspond to the pegs and the sinews to the strings which cause movements.