Lights blazed from every window, and he could see figures flitting back and forth across them like puppets on invisible strings.
Are Amalric, Tarascus and Valerius all but puppets dancing on your string?
That proves it's not by Shaw, because all Shaw's characters are himself: merepuppets stuck up to spout Shaw.
All the old stage conventions and puppets without the old ingenuity and the old enjoyment.
And, to pursue the argument higher, how can you, for one instant, suppose the existence of free-will in puppets situated as we are in the thick of a novel which we do not even understand?
For so long a time the slant is to continue unchanged, the vein to keep running, for so long a time you must keep at command the same quality of style: for so long a time your puppets are to be always vital, always consistent, always vigorous!
One who studies man in puppets (in which purpose lies the chief value of this amusing species), must think that we are degenerating rapidly.
Still we amuse them as stage-players and puppets amuse ourselves.
People trod the aisles softly, like puppetsplaying each his part.
The puppets were left to children and to the simplest rural population, not because the mores improved, but because people were treated to more elaborate entertainments and the puppets became trivial.
It also passed to the karagoz (shadow play) of the Turks and to the pantin puppets of the Javans.
Do you think the nine hundred and ninety-nine were created only to be destroyed, only to serve as puppets in your diabolical game?
Be this as it may, Ibsen is content to set his puppets acting within the appreciable limits of free will allowed us by our cognition.
His puppets are all poetic--the same poetry as of eld informs their gestures and their speech.
But the worst of these Jack-in-the-box puppets is that a very little sends them in again.
The Prince of Wire-Pullers, he made hispuppets perform what part he chose.
In the wáyang klítik the figures exhibited are more properly puppets than shadows: they are of wood, about ten inches high, and made to perform their parts without the intervention of a curtain.
The human writers became in their eyes the puppets and mouthpieces of some magical influence, not the disciples of a living and loving person.
This little performance was started by a few of thepuppets who thought they had a winning hand, and the other puppets called a show down.
With extreme pleasure they contemplated themselves in the noble puppets seen in the romance, basking in the sun of peace.
The characters are little more than puppets that pass across the stage, moved by no single inward spring of action, but determined in their movements by outward forces or temporary emotions.
Of course it could, without the meddling of the West and its two puppets in the region (Milosevic and Tudjman - SV).
In other words, is it not true that we are puppets - victims - in a theatre not of our making?
He alone perhaps of all the men who had to deal with her- -of all those military puppets with whom she played her royal game-- had never crossed that vague boundary which many had overstepped to their own inevitable undoing.
What unseen agency, outside the world, Prompted its puppets to do this and that, Put cakes and shoes and slates into their mind, These mothers and aunts, nay even schoolmasters?
Mere puppets once, I now make womankind, For thinking, saying, doing, match the male.
The men and women whom he has made are not stage-puppets moved by hidden strings; they are real.
His heroes are men of generous impulses but dissolute lives, and his women are either vile, or the puppets of circumstance.
All this was vastly amusing to the fisherman and his wife, who thought the whole thing was done as a show, and would not hear of Vance's closing his box until the darkness quite hid the supposed puppets from sight.
I could make more money with the puppets in one day at the fair, than I make by a year's fishing hereabouts.
Playing puppets must be an immense pleasure to the practical animal.
So the puppets were marshalled by Mrs. Doria, happy, or sad, or indifferent.
What black-headed puppets or dolls could be made from the great poppies, whose reflexed petals formed gay scarlet petticoats; and also from the blossoms of vari-colored double balsams, with their frills and flounces!
Dolls were called puppets in olden times, and babies.
Howells and other critics have censured Thackeray severely because of his tendency to preach, and also because he regarded his characters as puppets and himself as the showman who brought out their peculiarities.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "puppets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
