Sentence examples for waxwork from inspiring English sources

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waxwork

noun

A figure made of wax, especially an effigy of a famous person.

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According to reports, a Jodhpur citizen has lodged court papers suggesting that Liz's marriage last month to waxwork nebbish Arun Nayar "made a mockery of Hindu customs".

Take the new nativity scene at Madame Tussaud's, a waxwork museum, where the earthly parents of Jesus are displayed in the likeness of David Beckham and Posh Spice.

A rare exception is a waxwork of Cui Jian, the father of Chinese rock.

AFTER Marie Tussaud moved her waxwork display to London's Baker Street, in 1835, one of her most regular and enthusiastic visitors was the Duke of Wellington.

To go further back, Ron Mueck's "Dead Dad", a disturbing child-size waxwork of his father's corpse, is as powerful as a mannerist tomb relief from the French renaissance".Sensation" is not, for that, derivative.

Her great concern, after profit, was respectability: she called her enterprise a museum, not a waxwork show, and attracted the middle classes by calling it educational.

Casting about for a legitimate undertaking, Barnum outmaneuvered wealthier bidders to acquire John Scudder's American Museum, in New York City, a five-story marble structure filled with stuffed animals, waxwork figures, and similar conventional exhibits.

Within a short time she created a traveling waxwork exhibit featuring remarkably skillful portraits of well-known public figures.

But the waxwork drew criticism for depicting Minaj on her hands and knees, barely clothed, in reference to the singer's 'Anaconda' video.

In the corner is a life-size waxwork of Sonny Liston, a veteran of what Blake exasperatedly has to admit the public knows him best for, the Beatles' Sgt Pepper album cover – he was never properly paid for it.

A royal spokesman then described his behaviour as "less than exemplary", his profile was removed from the royal website and his figure in Madrid's waxwork museum was shifted from the royalty tableau.

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