(n.) A puppet moved by strings, as in a puppet show.
(n.) The buffel duck.
Example Sentences:
(1) The original referred to Punch and Judy as marionettes.
(2) Now, they have Miliband as a helpless marionette, with Sturgeon pulling the strings .
(3) Nobody has, and in the final last night Clay, like some loosely strung marionette, put his punches together in combination clusters and pummelled the Pole about the ring.
(4) Naomi Watts, whom he directed in the American remake of Funny Games , broke down in tears and protested that she was not a marionette as he bossily choreographed a scene in which she bustled about the kitchen.
(5) Hillary was attached, like a marionette, to strings held by a large disembodied hand.
(6) His Makers shop opened on a high street in Sheffield in September to bring craftspeople together by hosting workshops where participants can learn skills such as laser-cutting or marionette-making before selling their creations from the shop.
(7) For over three hours he flapped his hands in every direction, like a marionette being worked by a flock of butterflies.
(8) Thatcher appears, looking like a possessed marionette, her bossy elocution a declaration of intent, as if she means her voice to carry, to be heard generations on.
(9) But how many people saw them from an angle that made them look like distressing Soviet-era east European marionette puppets ?
Martinet
Definition:
(n.) In military language, a strict disciplinarian; in general, one who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of discipline, or to forms and fixed methods.
(n.) The martin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lendl and Mauresmo are former world No1s but he is an unsmiling martinet with a cutting line in sarcasm, she a mentor who chooses her words like a schoolteacher.
(2) The youth-led Nuit debout movement, which grew out of protests against labour reforms , has been holding night-time sit-ins and debates nationwide since 31 March, earning praise from figures such as William Martinet, leader of the students’ union Unef.
(3) Finally he emphasizes Martinet's qualities of loyalty and intellectual honesty, as well as his role as creator and director of a team (Broca, and later Epee de Bois).
(4) Chris Bryant, the former minister for Europe and chairman of the parliamentary all-party Russia group, said in a statement: "Having visited the trial and seen for myself the farcical way in which it was being conducted, with ludicrous trumped up charges and a petulant martinet of a prosecutor, it is entirely predictable that [Khodorkovsky] has been found guilty."
(5) On the basis of Martinet's functional linguistics, Chomsky's generative grammar and Piaget's cognitive psychology, the authors conclude that the psychopathology underlying hebephrenic speech is a disturbance of language rather than of parole and that hebephrenic syntactical distortions are linked to the disturbance in the balance between assimilation and accommodation characteristic of schizophrenic thought processes.
(6) They compare them to the european ones (Nally-Martinet).
(7) The Alps are a unique area for attracting skiers – of whom 30% are foreign – but the expansion in the skiing market is elsewhere, in Russia, China and central Asia.” Enrico Martinet, La Stampa Poland Facebook Twitter Pinterest A walk on the beach after sunset on the Polish Baltic Sea coast near Choczewo.
(8) William Martinet, the leader of the students’ union UNEF , welcomed the proposals as “important measures for the young”.
(9) However, no "modern" retention complex (Nally & Martinet--R.P.I.--R.P.A.--"equipoise"...)
(10) I have seen more than enough of the spirit-sapping martinet stupidity of French management to confirm the confessions of corporate slacker Corinne Maier's Bonjour Paresse (Hello laziness!
(11) Stress is laid on the words of Martinet and Tubiana in 1950 "...treatment of varicose veins is far from being as simple as many believe...".
(12) Martinet, the author, who was his collaborator for more than 25 years, surveys his phlebological work, so diverse and so multiple that it embraces all subjects of the venous pathology of the lower limbs.
(13) A director is not a father, you have to find the part for yourself.” Callow, too, recoiled when the “meditative experimenter” of Joint Stock workshops became a “Toscanini-like martinet”.
(14) Chris Bryant, the chairman of the all-party Russia group in the UK parliament, said in a statement: "Having visited the trial and seen for myself the farcical way in which it was being conducted, with ludicrous trumped up charges and a petulant martinet of a prosecutor, it is entirely predictable that [Khodorkovsky] has been found guilty."
(15) The Guardian understands that the Southampton left-back is being bought without the approval of Van Gaal, so to hear how this squares with the martinet manager of repute who needs total control over team matters could be revealing.
(16) Martinet also expressed his support for the Nuit debout action, praising the “thousands of people who are gathering for democratic debates”.