These girls, like marionettes, aren't really living. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call] Reference
We take marionettes and put them in dramatic situations. From Wordnik.com. [MTV's Funny Puppets ... 60 Minutes VII! ... HBO Bags Rafelson ...Your Prison Fantasy Explained] Reference
They are not marionettes or shadow puppets, by chance? '. From Wordnik.com. [The Stream and The Torrent] Reference
Seven, is about the most entertaining of the marionettes. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 16, 1917] Reference
Their feet dangled in the air like a pair of marionettes. From Wordnik.com. [Time Was]
It was a marionette world where marionettes dance their gayest. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Noon] Reference
She said you'd always wanted to go back and see the marionettes. From Wordnik.com. [Marionettes] Reference
John whispered as the marionettes danced excitedly back and forth. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
Not White House tenants, but those who manipulate the marionettes. From Wordnik.com. [Invasion of the Pumpheads!] Reference
Like marionettes seeking the enemy, their heads swiveled toward me. From Wordnik.com. [Death on the River Walk]
Despite their training, these men weren't all dogmatic marionettes. From Wordnik.com. [Double Portrait in War and Peace] Reference
And suddenly they seemed more like marionettes than children to her. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
From the device hang two plastic marionettes of Spider-Man and Venom. From Wordnik.com. [Caught Up in an Ugly Web of Cheesy Spider-Man Marketing] Reference
If the puppeteer is unable to perform, his marionettes cannot either. From Wordnik.com. [RNC Making An Issue Out Of...A Blogger?] Reference
The marionettes used in Captain Scarlet were the first to be proportionate. From Wordnik.com. [dailycomic Diary Entry] Reference
Vested interests will desist from bolstering their hand-picked marionettes. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Election Central Saturday Roundup] Reference
When you were a kid, remember those funny puppet shows with the marionettes?. From Wordnik.com. [The Puppet Show] Reference
Like a tangled mass of human marionettes, the three bodies skimmed down the glacier. From Wordnik.com. [Deception Point]
Let's listen to discussion of FinReg, with NPR battling some Frank Luntz marionettes. From Wordnik.com. [TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads] Reference
It features two dozen handmade marionettes crafted by pupeteers from the Swedish Cottage. From Wordnik.com. [NJ.com: Parental Guidance] Reference
For a moment no one moved, like marionettes gone limp, until Eva bolted again for the door. From Wordnik.com. [Wolves Eat Dogs]
So, Germany is celebrating 19 years of reunification with a huge party and giant marionettes. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 3, 2009] Reference
It is dangerous to be marionettes too long -- even now your limbs may be turning into sawdust. From Wordnik.com. [Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes] Reference
Or more closer to reality, imagine the relationship between the puppeteer and the marionettes. From Wordnik.com. [RNC Making An Issue Out Of...A Blogger?] Reference
Saxon religious in the times of Otho, or by marionettes in the more self-conscious life of to-day. From Wordnik.com. [French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France] Reference
The new movie has the kind of scenes you wouldn't expect from marionettes, at least not in public. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 7, 2004] Reference
"It wasn't so hard as you might think," said Grace, explaining the marionettes to a group of friends. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls] Reference
The whole nightmare happening had passed with the precision and ease of a clockwork scene played by marionettes. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
But there were some very interesting things that happened, like marionettes danced by themselves, no one even near them. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 28, 2005] Reference
This may save the producer trouble, but it reduces the actors to marionettes; it is not thus that masterpieces are turned out. From Wordnik.com. [A Librarian's Open Shelf] Reference
You know, we'd all just be like marionettes and we pray six times a day and we all do the right thing, but that's not real love. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 2, 2005] Reference
But her voice had neither the range nor the strength which Judy demanded to be successful, and he drew the marionettes off his fingers. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
Just as the Germans, in wavering, hesitating groups, presenting vague outlines, try to cut our networks they tumble over like marionettes. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915] Reference
The masked dancers whirled across the Venetian tiles, the invisible notes of the quadrille jerking them to and fro like winged marionettes. From Wordnik.com. [Thief Of Hearts]
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