Crossword-Solution: PUPPETRY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Puppetry | n. | Action or appearance resembling that of a puppet, or puppet show; hence, mere form or show; affectation. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “PUPPETRY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Art of manipulation? | 1 answer |
| Handy work in a theater? | 1 answer |
| Punch and Judy show skill | 1 answer |
| art of making and manipulating puppets and presenting puppet shows | 1 answer |
| Storytelling through dolls | 1 answer |
| mummery | 6 answers |
| Show of hands? | 9 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PUPPETRY (5)
SPIRIT SINISTER Do not the prelate's accents falter thin, His lips with inheld laughter grow deformed, While blessing one whose aim is but to win The golden seats that other b---s have warmed? SPIRIT OF THE YEARS Soft, jester; scorn not puppetry so skilled, Even made to feel by one men call the Dame.
SHADE OF THE EARTH Yea; that they feel, and puppetry remain, Is an owned flaw in her consistency Men love to dub Dame Nature--that lay-shape They use to hang phenomena upon-- Whose deftest mothering in fairest sphere Is girt about by terms inexorable! SPIRIT SINISTER The lady's remark is apposite, and reminds me that I may as well hold my tongue as desired.
But Merlin would have died, and Merlin would have died without regret, if Merlin had seen what you have seen, because Merlin receives facts reasonably." "Facts! sanity! and reason!" Jurgen raged: "why, but what nonsense you are talking! Were there a bit of truth in your silly puppetry this world of time and space and consciousness would be a bubble, a bubble which contained the sun and moon and the high stars, and still was but a bubble in fermenting swill! I must go cleanse my mind of all this foulness.
Remove or deform or diminish or modify the dominant features of the destroyer, and we have but the eternal and vulgar figures of jealousy and innocence, newly vamped and veneered and padded and patched up for the stalest purposes of puppetry.
Many of Shakespeare's contemporaries complained that there were playgoers who approved nothing "but puppetry and loved ridiculous antics," and that there were men who, going to the playhouse only "to laugh and feed fool-fat," "checked at all goodness there."[7] No public of any age or country is altogether free from such infirmities.
Quotes with PUPPETRY (3)
The characters act for reasons that they can’t control and, as readers, we have to believe in their motivations, their sense of choice and in the reality of their suffering, even though, deep down, we know it’s all just puppetry on the part of the writer.
We were discussing the fine puppetry of fate.
Puppet camp truly redefined my preconceptions of puppetry... I'll never forget learning that before a puppet can speak... he has to inhale. It's those details that make the characters truly come to life.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (2006–2014).