Sentence examples for manikin from inspiring English sources

SketchChair also offers software that lets you draw-on components like legs, and test the physics of the chair against a manikin sized to the proportions of your body".The idea of a 'factory' is, in a word, changing," writes Chris Anderson, a journalist and entrepreneur, in his new book, "Makers: The New Industrial Revolution".

In "Swarm" the bees, joined by ants, seem to pursue a series of grotesque but rather conventionally wigged manikin heads.

A manikin in carefully tailored suits, he makes no apology for his exacting demands on how the millions he has donated are spent, nor the consequences for failure.

He is a manikin to an Adonis, a Mini to a Maserati.

Fifty years later American students could flip open dozens of doors on a life-size cardboard manikin and pretend to dissect or, if they preferred, to operate.

I sit opposite a naked female manikin and underneath a wall-hung motorbike.

It even provides lifelike manikins on which to try out new things.

The techniques for constructing and sculpting anatomically correct manikins of clay and plaster that were developed at Ward's remain the basis of modern taxidermy; subsequent developments concerned mainly the treatment of reptiles, insects, and soft-bodied creatures and the introduction of such new materials as celluloid and other plastics.

Unravelling the role played by the flaccid male member in making a man appear attractive to women was solved by using life-sized, three-dimensional images of naked male manikins projected on to a video screen.

"Our reading, our conversation and thinking, are all on a very low level, worthy only of pygmies and manikins".

Maurizio Cattelan, master of sly invective and mini-me manikins, will take over the Guggenheim on Nov. 4 for a retrospective presented in the form of a buzzed-about site-specific installation.