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puppetry

/puhp-i-tree/US // ˈpʌp ɪ tri //UK // (ˈpʌpɪtrɪ) //

木偶戏,木偶剧,木偶艺术,木偶表演

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural pup·pet·ries.

    • : the art of making puppets or presenting puppet shows.
    • : the action of puppets.
    • : mummery; mere show.
    • : puppets collectively.

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Examples

  • Periodically throughout the movie, the Candyman legend is unfurled for us in a series of beautifully executed sequences of shadow puppetry.

  • At that point, in a bit of cosmic puppetry, the descent stage lowered the rover gently to the surface on nylon cables.

  • It was a hand, it was a puppet, it was half-CGI, but mostly puppetry.

  • The prints were inspired by characters that populate Sicilian street fairs and puppetry stages.

  • The neighbors, an elderly couple, help Molly, who is mute, to stage an elaborate puppetry show.

  • The animal realm comes alive to us as puppetry, and the human invention of war comes to seem more and more unreal.

  • Watching these creatures move across the stage is to be reminded how ancient an art puppetry is.

  • Still he had no delight in shuffling a puppetry; he would have preferred automatic figures.

  • They are sick of the woodeny puppetry they dispense, as on a race-course to the roaring frivolous.

  • He was too studied a believer in the puppetry of men and women to make them more than ridiculous.