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Handy work in a theater?
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puppetry
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Puppetry is a form of theatre/performance that involves the manipulation of puppets – inanimate objects, often resembling some type of human or animal figure, that are animated or manipulated by a human called a puppeteer . The puppeteer uses movements ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s; see puppet (n.) + -ry .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Puppetry \Pup"pet*ry\, n. Action or appearance resembling that of a puppet, or puppet show; hence, mere form or show; affectation. Puppetry of the English laws of divorce. --Chambers.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the art of making puppets and presenting puppet shows a stilted dramatic performance (as if by puppets)
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ However, modernisation will help to expand the programme further, including film shows, shadow puppetry and matinees - presently impracticable. ▪ This is a vivid and funny production and their expertise makes the intricate puppetry ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The art of making, and performing with puppets 2 (context countable English) The action of a puppet, or a stilted or puppet-like dramatic performance
Usage examples of puppetry.
When he is not drawing, painting, or writing, his interests include metalsmithing, puppetry, and teaching.
By combining top-of-the-line traditional techniques like puppetry, stop-motion miniature photography, and actors in robber suits, with the latest 3-D computer animation and transitional morphing a design team led by Stan Winston, Dennis Muren, Phil Tippett and Michael Lantieri made dinosaurs come to life like never before.
I was standing on my front porch again, watching the people dance in the streets and laugh at the puppetry, when Bilby and two of his enforcers climbed the stairs.
As a Church of England clergyman and as teacher of math and logic at Christ Church, Oxford, the Reverend Dodgson could not believe in blind chance or transcendental puppetry as descriptive of the nature of human life.
In puppetry, for instance, the use of stillness can be a more dramatic gesture than a forceful or repetitive action.
With scurrilous puppetry already on record in her SS dossier, that will be the end of her.
His agents infiltrated the government of Moscow quite effectively using only routine puppetry and a modicum of bribes.
When the puppetry had palled and no reason but pride was left to hold him in France, the innermost door, long forced by Thady Boy, had opened to him also.