marionette

Remy is, of course, an animated talking rat, and this is a movie that presumes, among other things, that a human body is an elaborate marionette operated by hair.
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She should have spent that summer morning swimming in a pool or running around a playground, not dangling from a machine like a marionette.
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A porcelain marionette on the shelf of your childhood bedroom.
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Have you ever been on a film and felt manipulated by a director, sort of like a marionette?
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Dodi, I remember, looked like a mangled marionette, his limbs twisted in impossible positions.
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He had gone on to such projects as a 28-foot marionette for the 1965 Balanchine production of Don Quixote.
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How did anyone know we were going to have a marionette show?
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You do not seem to be aware of the identity of the marionette who has just been killed.
Castellinaria|Henry Festing Jones
If all these fail how can a marionette be expected to succeed?
Castellinaria|Henry Festing Jones
He held by the hand a little French girl, dark, small, looking almost like a marionette in her slim tailor-made costume.
Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo|E. Phillips Oppenheim
Mr. Chamberlain had caught the infection, and was salaaming across the world to Mr. Kruger, like a marionette out of a box.
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British Dictionary definitions for marionette

marionette

/ (ˌmærɪəˈnɛt) /

noun

an articulated puppet or doll whose jointed limbs are moved by strings

Word Origin for marionette

C17: from French, from Marion, diminutive of Marie Mary + -ette

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