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Example sentences for: wax

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Northwest of Disneyland you will find the Movieland Wax Museum (7711 Beach Boulevard, Buena Park), which displays wax figures of film stars in scenes from their best-known films.
It’s easy to tell that they are not: Printed patterns don’t penetrate fully to the other side, while the real batik will show thin veins of color where the dye runs along tiny cracks in the wax (printed versions may try to simulate this).
British journalist Iain Pears' best-selling murder mystery, set in 17 th century England, is compared to Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose . Pears uses the thriller as an occasion to wax philosophical, meditating on scientific method and political liberalism.
Live Flesh , about a man who accidentally shoots his lover's husband, is deemed the director's "most mature film yet" (Jack Mathews, Newsday ). While the critics like Almodóvar's foray into political commentary--he indicts the Franco regime and Spain's ruling conservative party--they wax most enthusiastic over his signature touch: kinky sex scenes.
If we can learn something about how the underlying emotions wax and wane, about the circumstances under which bad things are likely to happen, wouldn't that be useful information?