“Misdirection of sound, the heart of ventriloquism, often landed me in trouble.”

“He can lecture at some length on the origins of the language, and it's only the mention of ventriloquism that prompts him to digress again.”

“Around this time he had his first puppet made and began to learn ventriloquism.”

“For the role of the ventriloquist in Magic I got some training from a guy called Denis Allwood.”

“An offshoot of ventriloquist journalism, these are one of the more insidious forms of misinformation.”

“I mean, the only thing worse then having a wax dummy, is having a wax dummy of a ventriloquist dummy that looks like a clown!”

“I would prefer to see free speech explored through documentary or, even better, debated in a piece of verbatim theatre rather than rely on the ventriloquy of this play in which, at all times, Bhatti holds the whip hand.”

“I pictured an ancient young woman rearing off the table, taking on dimension, shredding our assumptions, challenging our ventriloquy of her mute body.”

“This prospect is stirring more theatrical curiosity than jurisprudential suspense, as court buffs imagine Mr. Traficant questioning and defending himself in one vivid blur, a must-see act of ventriloquy.”

“Like two ventriloquists ' dummies or two sides of the same coin, both master and slave are locked in association.”

“They are their dogs' ventriloquists and mind readers, as well as parents, entertainers, waiters, nurses and fetchers.”

“Photos and playbills from famous ventriloquists line the walls.”