1907 16 185 Plato was too great an artist to be restrained..by a desire for a marionette-like consistency with a pronouncement he had once made and might disregard when he chose.
1993 3 Sept. ii. 8/5 Zappa's tunes were uncategorisable, a mixture of fairground-organ churnings, marionette-like Kurt Weillian whirlings, bits of jazz and modern classical music, bursts of rhythm and blues.