(n.) Action or appearance resembling that of a puppet, or puppet show; hence, mere form or show; affectation.
Example Sentences:
(1) The future is defined by the same old atavistic carnage as ever – which is, as Rosenbaum says, “an ingenious form of doublethink echoed in the very premise of a fantasy of the future beginning with “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away ...” Star Wars cast feel the Force after watching new trailer Read more I don’t hate Star Wars – I love the puppetry, just for starters, and all those beautifully dirty, scum-caked robots.
(2) Young companies have woken up to the fact that puppetry isn't just a way of putting an extra actor on stage without paying food and accommodation costs, but a brilliant theatrical tool.
(3) Puppetry, graphics, art, and discussion were techniques used in a peer group to impart knowledge and decrease anxiety, fear, and negativity.
(4) Hence Theatre de Complicite, Bill Hicks, Steven Berkoff, and, yes, Puppetry of the Penis .
(5) Lucas apparently felt the combination of animatronics and puppetry eventually adopted for Yoda (with legendary Muppeteer Frank Oz providing both movements and voice) would not be realistic enough to convince film-goers.
(6) One critic, complimenting him, said his work has more in common with Morecambe and Wise than with Rattigan and he has made extensive use of songs, dance, masks and puppetry in combination with the muscular and vigorous authority of his writing.
(7) Blackhurst's long-serving predecessor, Simon Kelner, had previously defended Hari, but the claims of "sock puppetry" coincided with the arrival of the new editor.
(8) 5.05pm BST Jamie Jackson on the Van Gaal appointment (with some particularly interesting views on the future of the captaincy at Old Trafford): Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 5.00pm BST An amusing link from RooftopRejoicer below the line – this is how Louis van Gaal was depicted on what was essentially the Spanish version of popular 80s puppetry programme Spitting Image.
(9) He studied puppetry at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts de la Marionnette, and has produced shows since 1998.
(10) Although he does not yet know what he will do with the grant money, Twist said his work in puppetry is labor-intensive and expensive.
(11) Successful use of puppetry for education of children is well documented in literature.
(12) A perfectly English production, it creates its stage effects out of a simple range of old clothes and props, and tells its story through a deft fusion of dance, music, puppetry and text.
(13) The Girl With the Iron Claws was a masterclass in storytelling through puppetry, while Bootworks' five-minute The Incredible Book Eating Boy was a miniature marvel.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Puppetry artist Basil Twist.
(15) He seemed to have survived the initial plagiarism allegations, but is now facing separate claims of "sock puppetry" – that he used an online alias to hit back at fellow journalists who had criticised his work.
(16) A month later that was followed by further allegations of "sock puppetry", or using an online alias to hit back at journalists and others who criticised his work.
(17) All groups received the "information" procedure that described typical hospitalization and surgery experiences via a puppetry film viewed 1 week prior to hospital admission.
Stilted
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Stilt
(a.) Elevated as if on stilts; hence, pompous; bombastic; as, a stilted style; stilted declamation.
Example Sentences:
(1) In sharp contrast, the coverage provided by the various mainstream news channels and newspapers not only seems – with some exceptions – unresponsive and stilted, but often non-existent.
(2) Tourists take the children out, to the zoo or downtown,” said the head of one orphanage of 16 children, a small wooden house built on stilts in flooded fields.
(3) Look, you can see it here," he says, pointing to a long, low, flat plateau that barely rises above the palms, banana plants and rubber trees that skirt the road and hug the traditional stilted timber houses dotting the lush emerald-green countryside.
(4) The houses were built on stilts and connected by thin wooden planks.
(5) Old plastic supermarket bags clog the ground under the platform stilts and the smell of sewage is overpowering.
(6) Meanwhile , the company's founder Guy Laliberté – the stilt walker who in 2009 became a billionaire space tourist – has said he is "heartbroken" by the traumatic accident.
(7) Updated at 1.33am GMT 1.23am GMT Lorde , a 17-year-old who achieved massive international success in about four months, steps on a small, round stage to perform a stilted version of her megahit Royals.
(8) It has been a stilted trajectory so far, when you consider the Guardian first wrote about her in 2008, describing her as "the female Frankmusik, the Fisher Price Fischerspooner" based on her debut single !Franchesckaar!
(9) My house is on stilts and there are 11 steps up to my front door so by Saturday morning, the water was already very high.
(10) The narration was awkward and stilted in a manner that suggested it had been translated into English and back again several times.
(11) Instead, the houses are built on stilts – meaning they can be much closer to trees.
(12) Initial clinical signs included stilted gait and simultaneous advancement of their pelvic limbs.
(13) Sample one of these stilted rorbu – timber-built and each boasting modern kitchens, lounges and nice bathrooms – in the cod-fishing town of Svolvær.
(14) Their version of Get Lucky and Freak Out, aided by Stevie Wonder and Nile Rogers, sounds just a little bit stilted, but it might have something to do with this particular recording.
(15) It has been claimed that those using social media in an abusive and vindictive way towards this woman are supporters of mine,” said Evans, who beyond a stilted video statement on his release had said nothing as the controversy swirled around him.
(16) (There is an ancillary attempt to make himself sound posh by using the stiltedly correct form of "ambassador to the UK".
(17) I saw it in Catherine Deneuve and Björk in Dancer in the Dark and in Nicole Kidman in Dogville: a Meg-Ryan-on-Parky glazed look, a hint that they don't quite know what they're doing, or what to make of the stilted script they've been handed.
(18) "I represent the people of Xinjiang," Aisikaier says in stilted Mandarin.
(19) If successful, it could see rich countries promise not only to cut their emissions but to stump up cash for poor nations to pay for the changes they'll need to protect their towns and villages from those effects of climate change already under way and too late to reverse (think houses on stilts on easily flooded sandbanks in Bangladesh).
(20) General clinical symptoms in these animals immediately postexposure were tremors, lethargy, stilted gait, and, in some animals, prostration.