(n.) A kind of drama in which real persons and events were generally represented in a ridiculous manner.
(n.) An actor in such representations.
(v. i.) To mimic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although she's been performing since 2000 – in the punk-cabaret duo the Dresden Dolls , in a controversial conjoined-twin mime act called Evelyn Evelyn (they wear a specially constructed two-person dress and have been castigated by disability groups for presenting conjoined twins as circus freaks, an accusation she denies) – in her new band, Amanda Palmer And The Grand Theft Orchestra , she's suddenly become a kind of phenomenon.
(2) Me and Taika would always do theatrical stuff, running around, miming, putting on voices.
(3) He taught us how to mime at home with games.” When he set up his own theatre company, the family moved to La Beauce, near Orléans.
(4) These results with this novel chemotherapy program in heavily pretreated patients suggest that MIME should be studied in less extensively treated patients and considered as a part of treatment programs for patients with Hodgkin's disease in first relapse.
(5) From 1981 to 1983, 208 patients with recurrent or refractory lymphoma were treated with methylglyoxal-bis-guanylhydrazone (methyl-GAG), ifosfamide, methotrexate, etoposide (MIME).
(6) Trump, signing an act to protect VA whistleblowers, revelled in the moment, using his fingers to mime a gun and mouthing his catchphrase “You’re fired!” at Shulkin.
(7) She has said all along she won't talk about him, and when I mention his name she mimes zipping her lips.
(8) He presented cabaret in working men's clubs ("I adored those audiences, they'd always want to dance with me afterwards") and toured Europe, developing a strange hybrid of drag, mime and conventional song-and-dance.
(9) Shoot!” He cocks his thumb to his index finger and mimes a pistol firing, though it’s not impossible I imagined that.
(10) Apart from spastic, extrapyramidal and cerebellar disturbances resulting from various types of diseases of middle and old age, the individual associated movements in miming and gesture become unharmonious and stiffer with increasing age and the hyperkinesia which was hidden by combined motoricity becomes more marked.
(11) He worked in mime, and he had a real theatrical background.
(12) However, MIME is well suited for remission induction in patients intended for subsequent autologous bone-marrow transplantation.
(13) She accused the singer on Twitter of miming on stage, adding "how disappointing": Kay Burley (@KayBurley) Oh, Dolly is miming.
(14) So every once in a while it would be, 'Yeah I read that book', and Alex would do like [James mimes a victory dance]."
(15) There are few feats of virtuosity better than his miming as he rehearses the song and as he performs a short introductory dance.
(16) But of all that what I found strangest was mime," Prada says.
(17) This is, after all, a musician, actress and multimedia performance artist who as a kid attended a nursery school where there were rumoured to be satanic cults, afterwards confessing that she was pissed off that there actually weren't; who appeared in a Calvin Klein "heroin chic" ad campaign that led to dope dealers on her block in New York naming a strain of junk after her; who has been a wrestler and appeared in numerous Super 8 horror and fetish movies; who was mugged to within an inch of her life but survived; who mimes onstage fornication with a skeleton symbolising her deceased boyfriend and other such transgressive acts including cracking paint-filled eggs on her vulva; who has cavorted in the recording studio with notorious coprophiliac GG Allin; who was into body mutilation and dysmorphia and so wanted to challenge preconceived notions of female sexuality that she SEWED UP HER VAGINA.
(18) I have to mime the lost purse, show the panic, pull out the drama, and then the relief.
(19) Without working too hard she studied for a PhD in political science, then devoted rather more effort to learning mime at the Piccolo Teatro.
(20) "If I'm miming something, be it a knife, a gun or a glass, I can't just let it disappear.
Theatrical
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a theater, or to the scenic representations; resembling the manner of dramatic performers; histrionic; hence, artificial; as, theatrical performances; theatrical gestures.
Example Sentences:
(1) At a theatrical device, it's a remarkable idea that a character will break the fourth wall.
(2) Years ahead of its time, it saw each song presented theatrically, the musicians concealed in the wings (although Bowie said that they kept creeping on to the stage, literally unable to resist the spotlight) and with Bowie performing on a cherry-picker and on a giant hand, both of which kept breaking down.
(3) "We are trying to create a theatrical version of The Arabian Nights which will do justice to the scale, depth and richness of the stories."
(4) Me and Taika would always do theatrical stuff, running around, miming, putting on voices.
(5) Dexter was a consummate theatrical craftsman and Lindsay was, in one form, a sort of poetic director.
(6) In 1997, the Globe was hardly the first space to challenge theatrical orthodoxy, but it was the first to return the event so wholeheartedly to the audience, and the first to do so in a way that felt so essentially English.
(7) Despite his Catholic upbringing, Clare lost his religious belief as a young man, saying he could not believe in a god that could cause famine, genocide and air crashes, although he admitted to missing the theatricality of the Catholic church.
(8) If someone’s able to keep such a stony-faced expression, it’s either high theatrics or they have no sympathy,” she added.
(9) Everyone was hooked to the drama and theatricality of it all.
(10) Young companies have woken up to the fact that puppetry isn't just a way of putting an extra actor on stage without paying food and accommodation costs, but a brilliant theatrical tool.
(11) Of all the senior clergy of the Church of England, she is arguably the least theatrical.
(12) Sharknado, a satirical disaster film featuring man-eating sharks let loose on Los Angeles by a freak cyclone, premiered on SyFy in 2013 and became a cult hit, gaining some traction later as a theatrical release.
(13) In fact, Guinness was an actor for a new theatrical style, subtle and undecorated.
(14) The costumes look remarkably grand for home theatricals, the jewellery is startlingly convincing, and the band evidently comprises moonlighting members of the Royal Horse Guards.
(15) His recognition of the theatrical value of its decay saved it from destruction.
(16) Theatrically backdropped by conical Great Sugarloaf mountain, the estate is landscaped with terraces, lakes and ponds, and also embraces the country's highest waterfall.
(17) And, although there are a few coups de théâtre (at one point the sky rains white balloons), audiences may be split over whether Van Hove has found a potent enough theatrical equivalent to Antonioni's visual poetry.
(18) When he finally deigned to sit down formally, it was in typically theatrical fashion: after midnight, on a big bed in a five-star suite, the Monte Carlo casino winking beneath our balcony, the ocean sighing behind us.
(19) The idea of the vampire as a silver-tongued aristocrat, like Count Dracula, is mirrored in Irving's thespian mannerisms, and his fascination with theatrical villains.
(20) She returned here and auditioned for Bernard Delfont , the huge theatrical group – it was a cattle market in those days.