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pantomime::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | dumb show, mime |
| Type of | playing, performing, playacting, acting |
| Has types | panto |
| Derivation | pantomimist |
Examples of pantomime
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So why are so many of the Board still there after presiding over this pantomime?
From the telegraph.co.uk
Give him a bird reference, and he will pantomime chasing one down and eating it.
From the theater.nytimes.com
Each pantomime is a small, precise work of art with a beginning, middle and end.
From the time.com
Most theatres have a tradition of putting on a Christmas pantomime for children.
From the en.wikipedia.org
In the ongoing pantomime of health service reform, several villains have emerged.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Like a less-pantomime Turbonegro, they sound like Satan's favourite blues band.
From the hecklerspray.com
In scene after scene, taut timing elevated comic pantomime and technical feats.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Every conversation with anyone selling anything is a pantomime of pain and bluff.
From the time.com
Can this political pantomime actually transition to any form of true democracy?
From the globalspin.blogs.time.com
- Mime: act out without words but with gestures and bodily movements only; "The acting students mimed eating an apple"
- Pantomime (informally, panto), not to be confused with a mime artist, referring to a theatrical performer of mime, is a musical-comedy theatrical production traditionally found in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Jamaica, South Africa, Japan, India, Ireland, Gibraltar and Malta, and is ...
- Is an EP released by The Pillows on May 21, 1990. It marked the band's debut and has since, like its follow-up 90's My Life, gone out of print.
- Pantomime (Walcott play) is a play by Derek Walcott. It was first published in 1978.
- A Classical comic actor, especially one who works mainly through gesture and mime. [from 17th c.]; The drama in ancient Greece and Rome featuring such performers; or (later) any of various kinds of performance modelled on such work. [from 17th c. ...
- To dream of seeing pantomimes, denotes that your friends will deceive you. If you participate in them, you will have cause of offense. Affairs will not prove satisfactory.
- A circus play, not necessarily mute, with a dramatic story-line (a regular feature in 18th and 19th century circus performances).
- A circus specific genre; it is used in various circuses in different times; there were a great number of pantomime ranging from heroic-battle ones and performances involving huge stage set to animal plays and short miniatures performed by mime clowns.
- Theatrical genre in which an actor silently plays all the parts in a show while accompanied by singing.
