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dumb show::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | mime, pantomime |
| Type of | acting, performing, playacting, playing |
| Has types | panto |
Examples of dumb show
dumb show
I'm here at the park now and it would be a pretty dumb move for them to show up.
From the guardian.co.uk
Jeff Daniels is doing a dumb TV show as we speak, but America will forgive him.
From the keepingscore.blogs.time.com
All that philosophizing aside, it was just a dumb show.
From the time.com
Yet, ironically, they fail to recognise themselves when their mimic deaths are presented in dumb-show.
From the guardian.co.uk
Occasionally you come across actors too, doing bits of dumb show supposedly based on Shakespeare's Macbeth.
From the time.com
Anything else is a dumb show and a waste of time and effort.
From the economist.com
In the dumb show, hands are more expressive than faces.
From the time.com
Old Hamlet's funeral is staged as a dumb show, with a clowning gravedigger slipping into the trench with the coffin.
From the independent.co.uk
But much of this will be dumb show.
From the economist.com
