puppetshow

The MN puppetshow was hardly a waste or a boondoggle or a payoff.

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If it was but play, if it was but a puppetshow they were to build, he set them the example of being no sluggard in play.

Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 2005

You go there as to a farce or a puppetshow; your business is only to laugh in season, either out of inclination or civility, while this merry companion is acting his part.

Hints Towards an Essay on Conversation 1909

It was all like a puppetshow of real life, each acting unconsciously a part in the play.

Men of Iron 1891

If it was but play, if it was but a puppetshow they were to build, he set them the example of being no sluggard in play.

Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 1887

It was all like a puppetshow of real life, each acting unconsciously a part in the play.

Men of Iron Howard Pyle 1882

As if a Cromwell in that dark huge game he had been playing, the world wholly thrown into chaos round him, had _foreseen_ it all, and played it all off like a precontrived puppetshow by wood and wire!

Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838

Each time incrementally inching the world closer and closer to the overarching endgame of central totalitarian dictatorship in a world government, while we are merely left to just study what they atrociously did in the previous puppetshow:

Signs of the Times 2010

While Joe’s smart to go for an older woman – it’s unlikely that Camilla Belle will respond to a split by making a puppetshow about it on MySpace like Taylor Swift did – there is a chance that she’ll push him into the world of premarital sex simply because she’s older than him.

Sorry Everyone On Earth, The Jonas Brothers Aren’t Splitting Up 2008