marionette
- n a small figure of a person operated from above with strings by a puppeteer
- That about sums up the new martial-arts musical marionette movie from South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
- Kerry's adherence to that strategyincluding the robotic repetition of the words strong and valueshas made him seem weak, transparent, a focus-group marionette with neon .
- The word was coined from "marionette" and "puppet," says Jim Henson, 42, the skinny, bearded Zeus from whose brow the creatures began to spring 20-odd years ago, when he was a .