We have learned that that is the wind-up doll response.

He disliked the feeling of being a wind-up doll in someone else's toy game.

“Neither of them has to be a little wind-up doll who’s supposed to behave in a certain way.

I can think of no other sport in which a wind-up doll, or technically produced robotic, would do as well.

The knife protruded from his chest like the key to a mad wind-up doll.

Better that than another snarky, environmentalist wind-up doll.

Marion was as predictable as a wind-up doll.

Members of the English royal family, shown discharging their ceremonial duties, look like wind-up dolls surrounded by toy soldiers.

It was as if I had been turned on; that I had become some sort of uncontrollable wind-up doll.

But inside I felt that I might as well have sent a wind-up doll to the party as to have gone myself.

After this, Daffy uses a wind-up doll mouse filled with explosives to try and blow up Speedy.

It's a picture that her oppo-nents have tried to turn against her, accusing her of being little more than an attractive wind-up doll.

He darts about like an overwound wind-up doll, twirling his cane with a spastic jerkiness.

The marvelous Taylor dancers are not hiccupping through little steps or executing pratfalls just to show us the soul within the wind-up doll.

As written, Joy is a generic, wisecracking literary broad, a Dorothy Parker wind-up doll.

The former dancer and Shakespearean actor is part entertainer and, judging by the speed of her legs, part wind-up doll.

Maybe she is desperate for freedom, but more likely she is stumbling across the blacktop with no more awareness than a wind-up doll.

Grethe Fox's Polina was like a wind-up doll, exploding in grievances until the energy winded down - then violently gushing out again.

Strutting and capering like wind-up dolls, Mr. Rubsam's dancers impersonated automatons very convincingly.

They were variously called "Living Dolls", "Topical Dolls", but the "wind-up doll" was the most common term.

You make it sound like filth," she said, abruptly angry-at being intruded upon, ordered around like a wind-up doll; at being pulled away from Carelin. "

She buttoned Midori's dress, unbuttoned it, spun her around, pulled clothes over her head - all as if the docile recipient were some sort of wind-up doll.