These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'waxwork.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2021 Prior to their removal from the royal set, the two waxwork figures had stood alongside Queen Elizabeth II, the late Prince Philip, the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. 2022 The future Queen was only 2 years old when Madame Tussauds London created their first waxwork of her in 1928. 2022 Penn gets off less easily, swaddled in and inhibited by the waxwork prosthetics that seem to crop up somewhere in every true-life dramatization these days. 2022 Just Stop Oil activists smashed cake into the face of a King Charles III waxwork at the Madam Tussauds museum in London Monday. The trope turns people into screen savers, and any sort of transgressive or titillating appeal has long since worn off hell, even the Oh wow, look at how sad and bored those dancers are comes. 2022 Four people have been arrested for criminal damage, after a waxwork of King Charles III was vandalized at Madame Tussauds in London on Monday. Nowadays, geek trope characters are often rewarded with success, simply for being geeks The geek or nerd is a character trope that’s pulled a complete 180 from inception to today. Classically, geeks were clueless about things that would help them get ahead. Brooke Knisley, Vulture, Although Evin has remained open, the authorities closed the shah’s older jail in central Tehran and turned it into the Ebrat Museum to showcase the shah’s brutality, complete with waxwork figures of torture victims. A common misconception about geeks and nerds is that they’re always smart. 2023 Ah, to be young and meandering around the desert, locating hidden oases to skinny dip in, and trespassing in the buildings of a misanthrope’s roadside attraction full of waxwork figures who seem to move of their own accord. Recent Examples on the Web On the occasion of the exhibition’s opening, Vogue talked with the renowned Canadian filmmaker about his discovery of these anatomical waxworks, the fantasy of living dissection, and the arduous process of filming 200-year-old actresses.
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