Sentence examples for human props from inspiring English sources

They are also utilitarian, employed as human props.

She does not bring human props to feed her narrative.

The veterans seemed visibly moved and far more invested in his candidacy than the kind of human props candidates usually put on the stage.

Second, he pointed out that a day on the set is often far from glamorous: "Extras are essentially human props," he said.

She is Annie Fang, born to a pair of performance artists who like to use their kids as human props for the nerviest, most chaos-inducing stunts that these adults can devise.

Plying the ritualistic formality and portentousness of Greek tragedy, Mr. McBurney steals every scene from his human props, a high-profile crew led by John Lithgow, Patrick Wilson, Dianne Wiest and Katie Holmes (2 10).

"Walking background" and "human props" are two of the gentle and tired jokes used to describe the role of the film and television extra, usually by extras themselves, but the description is entirely appropriate.

Turns out my family members were human props in a carefully crafted image designed to help the U.S. win the information battle with the Soviets.

The human prop, he calls himself.

"I hope everybody got paid properly for their human prop services," wrote Angry Asian Man in his blog.

One Order of Crow!" about the media failure on election night: "A skutnik is a human prop, used by a speaker to make a political point.