1.   To Willi and Gerda she had been no more than a romantic inspiration, a cardboard figure of tinsel who ceased to exist when the curtain came down.

2.   As a result, the characters are little more than cardboard figures who speak mostly in platitudes about Art and Mammon.

3.   Cardboard figures mark the spots where the Earps and Doc Holliday faced off against Ike and Billy Clanton and the McLaury brothers.

4.   Cardboard figures have adventures in Africa.

5.   In a summer of cardboard figures in splashy spectacles, that makes for a refreshing change, an intriguing, entertaining and altogether sweetly mystifying misfire.

6.   Of course, the screenplay reduces everyone around Mandela to cardboard figures.

7.   People posed for photographs beside them, as we do now next to cardboard figures of the president.

8.   That will be a cardboard figure of Vice President Al Gore.

9.   The fans become like so many cardboard figures.

10.   The play treads on cracking ice when it criticizes the cardboard figures and stock situations perpetuated by Hollywood.