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- noun Plural form of
puppet .
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Examples
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After seeing the puppets is all laughs, she seems hypnotised!!
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Now, arguably, his marriage to a modern woman and his visits to modern prostitutes are supposed to represent Kaname's interest in the modern West, whereas his interest in his father-in-law's geisha and in puppets is supposed to represent an attachment to Japanese tradition and an ultimate rejection of modernity, but that really didn't come through for me as I read the book.
Archive 2010-05-01 2010
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Now, arguably, his marriage to a modern woman and his visits to modern prostitutes are supposed to represent Kaname's interest in the modern West, whereas his interest in his father-in-law's geisha and in puppets is supposed to represent an attachment to Japanese tradition and an ultimate rejection of modernity, but that really didn't come through for me as I read the book.
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Looks like I'll have to back Barr instead of the corporate clown/puppets from the two party system.
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The pure obsession displayed by some of our more notorious commenters and puppets is indeed fairly amazing.
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First job of the Democratic puppets is to keep the Republican puppets from being lynched – since the Plutocrats will want to bring the Republican puppets back in in about two or four years once the Democratic puppets lose credibility.
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Believing that sitting your infant in front of a looping video of synthesized classical music and puppets is teaching and nurturing your child is the problem, I believe.
Uh-oh Roger Sutton 2007
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The sequence where they become music box puppets is excellent.
The great debate 2006
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A prince of puppets is not a prince, but a puppet; a superfluous duke is no dux; a titular count does not count.
Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 Maud Howe Elliott 1915
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One Flockton during the last half of the eighteenth century was the prince of puppet showmen, and he called his puppets the Italian Fantocinni.
Vanishing England 1892
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March 31, 2014