Sentence examples for mannequin as a from inspiring English sources

If "SoHo Display" is working with an idea of surrogacy, it is not of the mannequin as a stand-in for the human figure, but of the store window as a surrogate for the modernist ideal of the flat, unified picture plane.

In identifying the shift from the mannequin as a tool to an icon, muse, or fetish, Silent Partner locates the historical point in the modern period at which the status of the mere object is elevated to that of a powerful material thing.

Hoffmann's story – in which the protagonist Nathaniel is enchanted by and falls in love with Olympia – who it transpires is a doll-like automaton – is the one that perhaps most significantly marks the shift from the doll or mannequin as a 'silent partner' to an icon, muse, or even fetish.

You could be sitting, standing, walking, running, laughing, crying, or even be a mannequin as a form of protest, but for right wing conservatives there will never be a "right" way to protest when you are either a person of color, or when the subject matter does not what they feel represents America.

The inevitable jibe was that the club had bought a mannequin as much as a midfielder.

When Manchester United sold its superstar David Beckham to Real Madrid in 2003 for $50 million, critics said the storied Spanish soccer club was buying a mannequin as much as a midfielder.

My recent Kitchen Box came with all the ingredients I needed for simple quinoa enchiladas, along with enough mannequin parts to complete an entire second mannequin, as well as a few extra body limbs I've assembled into a kind of mannequin mutant.

It begins in the Renaissance, when artists pursuing the lifelike first used mannequins as a stand-in for flesh-and-blood models, an irony that runs throughout the show.

The obstetrical mannequin and one of the adult intubation mannequins, as well as the surgical instruments, belonged to MUHAS.

We were talking at the edge of the display, which included a pickaxe, a shovel, and a mannequin dressed as a flusher.

More a desert encampment, an assembly of mismatched seating, pallet decking, curios (skulls, art, a mannequin dressed as a pirate), it sits among shrubbery off a sandy track – coloured lights, the sounds of motorbikes and the music of the 1970s are the only clues to its existence.