Sentence examples for mechanical figures that from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

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.

The area also is the site of the Cathédrale St. Jean de Besançon, with its renown astronomical clock of some 30,000 mechanical parts and dozens of figures that re-enact Christ's burial and resurrection every day.

At Christine Burgin Mr. Lincoln presents an impressive reproduction of an 18th-century scientific clock and two dozen small electrically motorized figures that look like bizarre mechanical insects.

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.

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.

This car seems a perverse celebration of N.V.H. Plainly, Toyota figured that its target buyers -- the steel-nerved MTV crowd that listens to Korn at runway-decibel levels -- might enjoy the car's mechanical bombast.

The Van de Graaff generator shown in Figure 13 is a mechanical device that produces an electromotive force.

Nadrian C. Seeman, a professor of chemistry at New York University, has used DNA to make three-dimensional "stick figures" like cubes and also a mechanical switch that flips between two positions when a chemical is added to the solution.