But with his native wit and musical intelligence, Pavarotti cannot act dumb.

But tho’t it more rational to ſuſpend my Judgment till I had Opportunity of ſeeing for my ſelf.

Another not-so-nice term is meat puppet, a newscaster who is the intellectual equivalent of a puppet.

One of the difficulties, therefore, which capital has to meet, by the aid of such administrative ability as it can command, is how to keep order when society no longer rests on the cohesive family, but on highly volatilized individuals as incohesive as grains of sand.