| 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. |
| 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. |
| His act originally involved impressions and conjuring tricks and he developed his ventriloquy after pretending there were voices coming from a box on stage. |
| I pictured an ancient young woman rearing off the table, taking on dimension, shredding our assumptions, challenging our ventriloquy of her mute body. |
| I liked the nimble ventriloquy in the dwarf's riposte to King Philip IV in Los Ninos: Down where you do not come there lives the world of little folk. |
| The insects had been a chronic irritation on the C. C. C. barge, but out here on the marshy open prairie they were pestilential, their sawing sound filling the air like a cruel ventriloquy of the men's own thirst. |
