Sentences with phrase «of ventriloquist»

With The Ventriloquist we are left in the dark about the true identity of the ventriloquist and his dummies.

In late 2011, her 1985 photo of a ventriloquist's dummy, Untitled (When I Hear the Word Culture I Take Out My Checkbook), was sold at Christie's for a record $ 902,500.

Dog - loving viewers of reality television series Britain's Got Talent were less than impressed with the performance of ventriloquist Marc Metral and his dog Wendy.

This Halloween enter into the Nightmare of the Ventriloquist, where the puppets are out to play and want you to join in on their games, but beware as these puppets don't have strings to hold them back from catching you.

An iconic use of the haunted - doll trope, this Alberto Cavalcanti - directed tale of a ventriloquist and his seemingly sentient (and malevolent) dummy has stood as a touchstone of the subgenre — everything from the Anthony Hopkins - starring Magic to recent offerings like Annabelle owe the British horror sequence a debt.

In this weird crime drama the murder of a ventriloquist is solved by a midget who goes undercover as a dummy.

Have you never heard of a ventriloquist?

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The ventriloquists of our humane verbal fundamentalisms are but like lunacies of mental arborists who become jealous regarding differing sensualists whose only ills are to recreations of sensualistic pleasing outrightly set apart from the emotionally disturbed religious fundamentalists who seem to be fixated in their arbitrary mindset issues of straight lined sensualistic commonalities complacencies.

«lionlylamb2013 High 5 «imagination», The ventriloquists of our humane verbal fundamentalisms are but like lunacies of mental arborists who become jealous regarding differing sensualists whose only ills are to recreations of sensualistic pleasing outrightly set apart from the emotionally disturbed religious fundamentalists who seem to be fixated in their arbitrary mindset issues of straight lined sensualistic commonalities complacencies.

Today this apolitical avant - garde has found its ventriloquist and prophet in Marshall McLuhan, an author who admittedly lacks any analytical categories for the understanding of social processes, but whose confused books serve as a quarry of undigested observations for the media industry.

The discourse on human rights should not allow itself to be misappropriated by ventriloquists of the Establishment who are opponents of progressive forces branding them as terrorists when they demand statehood and power to the dalits, the women, the indigenous tribals.

Members of our first group, the «hermeneutical ventriloquists,» think to espouse positions because of the Bible, but do so actually because of unsuspected political / cultural factors.

My kids watched a TV episode of a «kid - friendly - horror - show» called «Goosebumps» where a ventriloquist's dummy is evil and destroys the life of the owner.

Please allow the Rev. Dr. King to rest in peace and don't insist of exhuming his corpse to use as a ventriloquist's dummy to mouth whatever words you want it to say.

Somebody told Sandy Tatum, the president of the USGA, that instead of planting a tree, if he really wanted to do something to help this Open along he should plant a ventriloquist near Purtzer and Nelson in case either of them won.

Those words came from the ventriloquist in the corner — the tech holding a crimson vial of Myles» blood.

In fact, he sat there on the political sarcophagus as a ventriloquist dummy as members of the political cartel of which he was a member looted the nation with reckless abandon.

The British Library exhibition features a fragile, unsettling ventriloquist dummy of him from the period.

1) The audio and video are so out of sync with each other that Liz and Schneiderman looks like ventriloquists.

Well known faces and acts will include the likes of the hilarious duo Dick and Dom, the extremely talented Great Big Gig, Daredevil Scientist Greg Foot, Captain Barnacles & Kwazii from the Octonauts, the energetic Go Go Go Show, everyone's favourite Peppa Pig and Little Brother George and Britains Got Talent ventriloquist act, Steve Hewlett who wowed the judges with his originality and humour.

This process is seamless and adaptive — for example, in the ventriloquist illusion, the perceived location of a sound shifts toward the location of visual stimulus if they are presented at the same time.

A few years ago, I emceed a comedy show in which one of the performers — a ventriloquist — put on a lab coat and a pair of thick spectacles and then introduced himself as «Professor Feedlefarts from the University of Science and Stuff.»

He typed in the query «what was I going to say next,» and like a ventriloquist's dummy, Google delivered up as its top result the first sentence of Frank's next presentation slide.

Rock actually rocks out as one of the year's most purely entertaining movies (just keep thinking: Bill Murray as a ventriloquist).

Last week's «horse race» reached Best in Show levels of ridiculous visual hilarity, and nothing gets me chuckling quite like the sight of Tom's (Chris O'Dowd) shy big sister, Bea (comedian and ventriloquist, Nina Conti), conversing with her best friend, a droll sock puppet - sorry miniature companion, named Monkey.

The only saving grace of a picture so crowded and perverse as to be unsalvageable is when Carnahan uses Ben Affleck as a literal ventriloquist's dummy, delivering in one stroke the full weight of actual post-modernism the rest of Smokin» Aces labours to manufacture.

In the scuffle with the mammoth beast, another book gets opened that unleashes a malevolent ventriloquist dummy named Slappy (also voiced by Black), who proceeds to unlock all of the rest of the books and the dangerous monsters contained within.

After the incident with her, in the wee morning hours (evidently none of these guys has to work on Thursday), everyone but Dr. Kramer decides to spontaneously drive to San Francisco for a stop at the House of Affection, a brothel run by a woman (Ann Wedgeworth) with a ventriloquist's doll.

In chronological order, it covers the design and evolution of Batman's vehicle in the DC comic books, the early film serials, the 1960s TV show, the cartoons, and all eight movies, with input from various individuals of importance, including Christopher Nolan, Joel Schumacher, Adam West, the TV Batmobile's customizer George Barris, Tim Burton (in seemingly old footage), Batman historians, crew members, stuntmen, comic book artists, Comic - Con attendees, and ventriloquist / Batmobile owner Jeff Dunham.

And while nearly all of them are successful and memorable — from the morbid to the darkly comic — the final stand - alone segment, «The Ventriloquist's Dummy,» is the most resonant.

If lizard - lidded Phoenix can fool folks into believing he has leading - man moxie by portraying a man known for a lot of things but not a lot of natural exuberance («Something weird about that boy,» someone says in the picture — and they could be referring to either the ventriloquist or the dummy), then more power to him.

It collects an eclectic bunch of misfits, from a blind fencer (O'Dowd) to a ventriloquist (Dunham) to Barry's dickey - wearing, mind - controlling IRS colleague (Galifianakis).

Before he was Hannibal Lecter, Anthony Hopkins delivered a tour - de-force performance in this film from Oscar winner Richard Attenborough (Gandhi) as a mentally unhinged ventriloquist who forms a dark, co-dependent relationship with his dummy, which seems to have a mind of its own.

Aided by Slappy (voice of Jack Black), a ventriloquist dummy featured in another of his stories, the alarming creatures run amuck, destroying property, terrorizing citizens, welding weapons and promising to do whatever it takes so that they will never have to return to the confines of the printed page.

Lawther's face in these unbearably tense scenes resembles Maxwell Frere's ventriloquist's dummy in Dead of Night and also brings to mind Michael Redgrave's affecting performance in the same film.

His findings lead him to discover the tale of theatrical entertainer and ventriloquist Mary Shaw (Roberts, The Nanny Diaries) and her collection of dolls that had been buried with her upon her passing.

The American government conducts hearings that will determine the future of the Federal Theatre Project, which is valiantly defended by its head, Hallie Flanagan (Cherry Jones); but helped taken down by a low - ranking employee (Joan Cusack), who in turn is pursued romantically by a ventriloquist (Bill Murray).

Originally crafted by series creator James Wan out of papier - mache, clay, and black ping - pong balls for eyes, creepy ventriloquist puppet Billy...

Bill Murray as a delusional, self - serious ventriloquist is always good for a laugh, as are Jack Black and Kyle Gass — then of the rock duo Tenacious D — as eager students who yearn to learn from him.

Teaming up with comedian and ventriloquist Jeff Dunham, Mopar built a one - of - a-kind Dodge Challenger SRT that was unveiled late yesterday afternoon at the 2012 SEMA Show.

From the quirky, rebellious Taylor Greer of The Bean Trees to the four unique voices of the sisters in The Poisonwood Bible, she proves herself a literary ventriloquist.

- Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder «Emma Donoghue is one of the great literary ventriloquists of our time.

In this short, memorable story, the Great Freddie, a second - rate ventriloquist, is taken over by the spirit of a 12 - year - old Jewish boy who was killed in the Holocaust and is now seeking revenge.

We also had a ventriloquist, fire juggler, homeless balloon artist, face painters, troupe of giant puppets, and bunch of psychic readers.

Comprised of two separate videos, «Ringtone» and «Geisha Song,» the installation features the artist's signature style of using inanimate objects, such as ventriloquist dummies, paper dolls and finger puppets in staged photographs and film to objectify people and express a blend of psychological, political and conceptual ideas.

Puppets, acrobats, ventriloquists, dwarfs and ballerinas are but some of the characters that inhabit his works, alongside anonymous orient - looking figures, whose presence recalls ambiguous and contradictive scenarios.

Participants flop like mute ventriloquist dolls caught between two worlds — literally part of Mayer's object narrative — Peter Rabbit and Roger Rabbit — a tourist in their own time.

Paul Hobson dedicated his final «Hobson's Choice» weekly review to Ventriloquist, before taking up the Directorship of Modern Art Oxford in the fall 2013.

Take, for example, the contents of the 1983 painting Ventriloquist, which references multiple printed images.

The titular series portrayed in Laurie Simmons» Clothes Make The Man: Works From 1990 - 1994 consists of 6 nearly identical resin dolls, modeled on wooden ventriloquist dummies.