10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PUPPETLIKE»
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Ancient Sun, Modern Light: Greek Drama on the Modern Stage
Their puppetlike motions, particularly before and after Pentheus' sparag- mos,
seem derived not only from the Bunraku puppet tradition, but also from a political
tradition that demands absolute obedience. In fact, the continued strength of the ...
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Puppets and "popular" Culture
(161-64) The puppetlike "motions" of the spectatorial gaze betray its "empty"
corporeality, the lack of those inner "motions" which the spectator's carefully
chosen gestures are intended to suggest. By contrast, the "attentive auditors" for
whom ...
Scott Cutler Shershow,
1995
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The Significance of Consciousness
And one might claim that we have no warrant for thinking that thoughts and
behavior are not puppetlike without some internal examination. Then one might
say that it wouldn't be right to regard Dennett's proposal as suggesting we identify
...
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Pinocchio, the Tale of a Puppet
Pinocchio, The Tale of a Puppet follows the adventures of a talking wooden puppet whose nose grew longer whenever he told a lie and who wanted more than anything else to become a real boy.As carpenter Master Antonio begins to carve a block ...
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Convention and Transgression: The Theatre of Emilio Carballido
49 With the exception of Lucio and the three expatriates, Carballido reduces his
characters to puppetlike figures, whose actions and emotional responses are so
exaggerated as to appear mechanical. In farce, Esslin notes, "events develop ...
Jacqueline Eyring Bixler,
1997
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A Poetics of Composition: The Structure of the Artistic Text ...
They are puppetlike, as is immediately evident from the marked automatization of
their behavior. They behave in exactly the same way; they always appear at the
same time, and in the same order (one of them is called "the man in the middle" ...
Boris Andreevich Uspenskiĭ,
1973
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Women and Laughter in Medieval Comic Literature
Bergson's concept of "the mechanical superimposed on the living" [du
mechanique plaque sur du vivant] helps us to see that Ulricas relationship with
his lady is comic precisely because of his mechanical, puppetlike obedience to
the norms of ...
Lisa Renée Perfetti,
2003
The comical synth sounds' — especially that flabby, loose-bottomed bass —
followed by the quasi-solo guitar, tell us how to dance, i.e., loose-limbed and
puppetlike, with lots of movement below the hips. On another level, however, the
r&b ...
David Nathan, Susan Gedutis Lindsay,
2001
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Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination ...
In New York in Slices (1849) Foster had portrayed Wall Street as a totally
dehumanizing environment producing puppetlike people and universal misery
cloaked by gentility. “Wall-street! ” Foster writes. “Who shall fathom the depth and
...
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Neuropsychological Assessment and Intervention for Childhood ...
initial descriptions (Angelman, 1965). Angelman syndrome is characterized by
severe developmental delay, speech impairment, ataxia with a puppetlike gait,
and frequent laughing, smiling, and excitability (C. A. Williams & Driscoll, 2007).
Cynthia A. Riccio, Jeremy R. Sullivan, Morris J. Cohen,
2010
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PUPPETLIKE»
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puppetlike is used in the context of the following news items.
Hayv Kahraman: 'How Iraqi Are You?'
Their articulated hands seem puppetlike. Their largely strapless gowns and black bouffants seem of recent American vintage even as the fabric patterns of their ... «New York Times, Mar 15»
DARPA's Robot Challenge
It's one thing to build a remote-controlled robot that is guided, puppetlike, by a human holding a joystick; it's another to instruct a robot to get into a car, and have ... «New Yorker, Jun 13»
Half of state voters approve of O'Malley as governor — but few see …
"He seems very puppetlike and very flaky." Though he built his political career in Baltimore, the governor enjoys his strongest support in the Washington suburbs ... «Baltimore Sun, Oct 12»
Bad Things Happen to Bad Children
It was unsuitable for children, Disney concluded: Pinocchio was too cocky, too much of a wiseguy, and too puppetlike to be sympathetic. Finally a compromise ... «Slate Magazine, Oct 11»
'War Horse' on Broadway: What did the critics think?
However, the play contains its share of "stock stick figures... The more horselike the puppet became, the more puppetlike I found the human actors." RELATED:. «Los Angeles Times, Apr 11»