Sentence examples for mechanical figure from inspiring English sources
Like a mechanical figure in the town clock, he would signal dessert time by bumping his nose softly on the table.
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.
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.
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.
About all that connects Hugo to his past is an automaton, a mechanical figure that leads him to discover that the owner of a toy store is the director Georges Méliès Ben Kingsleyy), who, with masterworks like "A Trip to the Moon" (1902), helped transform dreams into cinema as we knew it for most of the 20th century.
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.
