stage-prop

… When did Fox's Johnson, jabbing a giant stage-prop fork into a New York Giants helmet, say "stick a fork in the Giants because they're done"?

Gibbs, Theismann to reunite for NBC wild-card game 2009

I cannot describe the rage I feel whenever I see Bush and anyone backing him using troops as some kind of stage-prop, talking about how the next six months are crucial and we should "support the troops."

McCain: Every "Sensible" Observer Favors Giving Escalation A Chance 2009

From the tough-guy rancher in Crawford to the claims of compassionate conservatism to the stage-prop turkey he pretended to serve troops on Thanksgiving, it was all a fake, a show, a lie.

Marlene H. Phillips: The Final Curtain Can't Come Soon Enough 2009

Republicans have good reason to hang up: authentic Evangelicals contradict the stage-prop Evangelicals who work for the GOP rather than the GOD.

Under Weight of Palin Strategy: Right Wing Cracking Up 2008

The northernlandscape that lay beyond the double-glazed windows—the snow-bound plazas and stage-prop temples—strangely heightened hisauthority; only a superhuman authority, it seemed, could contrive to fashion a capital out of this desolate ice-world.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

The northernlandscape that lay beyond the double-glazed windows—the snow-bound plazas and stage-prop temples—strangely heightened hisauthority; only a superhuman authority, it seemed, could contrive to fashion a capital out of this desolate ice-world.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

The northernlandscape that lay beyond the double-glazed windows—the snow-bound plazas and stage-prop temples—strangely heightened hisauthority; only a superhuman authority, it seemed, could contrive to fashion a capital out of this desolate ice-world.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

The northernlandscape that lay beyond the double-glazed windows—the snow-bound plazas and stage-prop temples—strangely heightened hisauthority; only a superhuman authority, it seemed, could contrive to fashion a capital out of this desolate ice-world.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

The northernlandscape that lay beyond the double-glazed windows—the snow-bound plazas and stage-prop temples—strangely heightened hisauthority; only a superhuman authority, it seemed, could contrive to fashion a capital out of this desolate ice-world.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

Everything else was stage-prop, meant to impress clients.

The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006