How To Use Marionette In A Sentence
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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.
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The exquisite design work and miniature sets, and the jerky marionettes with eerily lifelike physiognomies, never looked better than in these two grand features.
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I almost saw Don Giovanni performed by marionettes - the Czech marionette tradition is one of the best in Europe!
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Puppet shows using glove and hand puppets, shadow puppets, and marionettes are performed there, depicting stories from Uzbek history.
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For clarification, Teresa was explaining to the class that they were going to be like marionettes hanging by the strings.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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Visitors were intrigued by the live specimens, marionettes and innovations such as the Mouse Alert and the mini bubble.
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Making the puppets so large, though, undermines the puppet actors' role; why use marionettes if they are as big as people?
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For us, real marionettes, string marionettes, produced those moments of otherness, they created a spell, something very unnerving, disquieting.
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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.
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Klantze spun about sharply, like a mechanical marionette on a glockenspiel, and marched off.
THE X FILES 3: GROUND ZERO
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As if they were but marionettes, they all marched amiably into the dank corridors beneath the garrison at the castles bailey wall.
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The tale, which is told by two puppeteers, features marionettes, hand puppets, rod puppets and mask and stilt characters.
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Una strana creatura col megafono viene seguita, come il pifferaio di Hamelin, da un gruppo di creature ancor più strane, il cui aspetto richiama le sagome delle marionette balinesi.
No Fat Clips!!! : GOTYE – Hearts a Mess
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Here you get to see real marionettes and puppeteers in action.
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His words became little white letters on the bottom of the screen for my benefit, his mouth moving soundlessly like a marionette, a puppet with his strings drawn by the public.
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Marionette Theater ], had cast the coincidentia in lapsarian-mythic terms of
Kafka and the Coincidence of Opposites
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The Marionette, seeing death dancing before him, trembled so hard that the joints of his legs rattled and the coins tinkled under his tongue.
Adventures of Pinocchio
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The central open-air market is the heart of the city, pumping an assortment of useless bric-a-brac and expensive marionettes out to its furthermost reaches, and generally keeping the tourist cash flowing.
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Later, in the '90s, she visited Prague, where she met and studied with Czech puppeteers and discovered the allure of marionettes and puppet theatre.
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Behind them, a lady with one green eye and the other a clear blue was selling marionettes.
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She suddenly felt as if she were a marionette whose strings were pulled so taut that she was forced onto her toes, her head pulled back.
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Jim Henson founded his company in 1958, inventing the term ‘muppet’ as a cross between the words marionette and puppet.
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Marionettentheater, whose gracefulness is "not an end in itself, but a device to impress the teacher":
Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man
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Rather than cardboard cutouts, like South Park, the movie uses puppets - marionettes, actually.
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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
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Meireles's marionette is stamped from thin rubber and was suspended from a rotating rod at the ceiling.
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Bella breaks a marionette, and learns the importance of telling the truth.
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Performed by a series of exquisite marionettes, it is truly magical.
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The Adventures of Pinocchio is the story of a wooden marionette whose greatest ambition is to become a real boy.
Archive 2007-07-01
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A marionette danced on strings, a jester decking in bells and bright red and yellow.
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The figure dances, like a marionette whose strings are pulled by popular music; yet the figure is also flexible, suggestive perhaps of the flexibility of style itself.
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I chose to start with the medical exam because I wanted to show the weakness of the human body in a situation in which the body seems to be moved by strings, like a marionette.
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I have to admit that my heart sank when we learnt that the Marionettentheater's version of Mozart's Magic Flute was complete, unabridged, entirely in German and would last 21/2 hours - but we needn't have worried.
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Folklore also surrounds Belgium's traditional puppet theater, whose marionettes are based on characters from the tales of their particular cities.
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She herself has worked backstage for a marionette theater in Minneapolis, and she taught calligraphy for years.
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Reaching out, the fingers started waggling like a marionette having its strings being pulled.
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The exhibition is on view until December 31 and includes ceramics, bone and metal implements, goblets, pitchers, fragments of marionettes, and Chinese porcelain.
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A marionette on strings is about all he really deserves to be remembered as, although you do have to give him credit for being able to duck (flying shoes) pretty well for being such a lame one. — eddy
Bush to Deliver Farewell Address on Thursday - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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The woman started up the engine and drove like a madman… pardon me… I meant madwoman to the marionettes hotel.
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'gentlefolk' in the book are the merest marionettes, but there are descriptive passages of first-rate vigour, and the voice of wisdom is heard from the lips of an early Greek choregus in the figure of an old parson called Mr. Wyvern.
The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories
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We submit that even those who impeach the Deity for opening the door to sin would on second thoughts confess that morally free -- and therefore peccable -- beings stand on a higher level than marionettes, however faultlessly contrived to perform certain evolutions.
Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive
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Ploetzlich bin ich, Tilo Wolf , die Figur , die von diesem Harlekin als Marionette bewegt wird.
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She'd hired and fired plenty of times at Marionette Biscuits, and always prided herself on making good staffing choices.
TICKLED PINK
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Perry, in a fishing jacket, moving like a marionette that swallowed a pneumatic drill.
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Even the Tories seem unable to snap out of a me-too approach to the credit crunch, approving each new bank bailout as if dancing on a Labour marionette.
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The PuppetMobile, dispatched from what was described as the mothership—Central Park's Swedish Cottage Marionette Theater—travels to all five boroughs during the summer, performing seven days a week, before 50,000 children.
The Reluctant Puppeteer
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“Since the Webb family marionettes are supposed to be ‘stringless,’ Ms. Wiggins and I were experimenting with different kinds of string to see which ones would be difficult for an audience to see.”
Master of Mirrors
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And the motion of these characters is positively stilted and looks like marionettes on strings as they bob and nod about.
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The second obscure musical artifact revived at Spoleto this season was Haydn's 1773 marionette opera, "Philemon and Baucis," written for the marionette theater at Eszterh za.
Passion and Precision
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A large witch marionette clopped in from the left wing of the stage, followed by the stepmother and father.
Master of Mirrors
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The grotesque flesh-marionettes of the studio audience erupted with a shrill and uneven staccato of laughter.
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The flies, despite their immobility, seem to dance playfully like marionettes on a stage.
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The marionettes used in the first 15 minutes of the play are stringless and later on he straps on a headband with a protruding puppet head lodged in front of him.
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For all men begin, as we said, by wondering that things are as they are, as they do about self-moving marionettes, or about the solstices or the incommensurability of the diagonal of a square with the side.
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When the axonal nerves and myelin sheaths become damaged we become—in simplest terms—a bit like marionette puppets without any strings: nothing connects the brain and the toes, the central nervous system and the muscles in our arms or legs.
The Autoimmune Epidemic
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The Mush Stage depicts a free-form puppet theater where, around a hapless stick-figure marionette, float a plethora of scrims, stage maquettes, painted backdrops and hinged windows.
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He was shaking out his arms now, like a marionette in a high wind.
BABYCAKES
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In a beautifully appointed room near the gallery entrance, he has assembled Nepalese marionettes in the images of the Gods of Hinduism.
