Sentence examples for Mechanical figures from inspiring English sources

According to Serlio, moving mechanical figures representing men, animals, and objects were cut out of pasteboard and drawn across a scene by invisible wires.

A squirrel cage provides nesting areas resembling Georgian town houses, along with a pet running wheel attached to mechanical figures who come to life when it turns.

The windows from Bendel's are not the plain plate glass that separate crowds on the street from dancing mechanical figures and choo-chooing trains at this time of the year.

One, the "Black Box" from 2006, is rigged with a small army of costumed mechanical figures (resembling adjustable arms from desk lamps) that move along tracks onstage, with the mechanisms visible from the sides.

Craig's intention is not fully clear whether he envisioned mechanical figures that would defy the physical restrictions of the human body or, as seems more likely, puppets that would be controlled from inside by human beings, children, or dwarfs.

The effigies are at their eeriest at the Last Supper, a "show" in which the audience sit in front of 13 mechanical figures who barely move, while neon spotlights shoot in different directions to a soundtrack of Handel's Zadok the Priest.

Like a mechanical figure in the town clock, he would signal dessert time by bumping his nose softly on the table.

The mechanical figure – that also featured as part of the London 2012 Olympic celebrations – will take a starring role across the weekend that sees the coming together of two of the Midland's best-known historical figures.

Bertha is a gaudy, curvaceous mechanical figure at a carnival, swallowing coins, belching and sneakily leading passers-by into a dance of death with a few unnoticed waves of her baton.

On the small end of the scale comes the Tomy i-Sobot, a mechanical figure that is 6.5 inches tall and can walk around the floor or tabletop on two motorized legs.

By William McGuire and E. B. White The New Yorker, November 17, 1945 P. 21 Reconversion Note: The small mechanical figure of Hirohito in the window of the Broadway Gift Shop, opposite the Times Building, has received fresh makeup and a new custome.