(n.) A universal mimic; an actor who assumes many parts; also, any actor.
(n.) One who acts his part by gesticulation or dumb show only, without speaking; a pantomimist.
(n.) A dramatic representation by actors who use only dumb show; hence, dumb show, generally.
(n.) A dramatic and spectacular entertainment of which dumb acting as well as burlesque dialogue, music, and dancing by Clown, Harlequin, etc., are features.
(a.) Representing only in mute actions; pantomimic; as, a pantomime dance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest No shake: Donald Trump snubs Angela Merkel during photo op The piece of pantomime was in stark contrast to the visit of Theresa May in January.
(2) Defects in pantomime recognition always occurred in conjunction with reading defects of at least comparable severity, but reading defects sometimes occurred without comparable defects in pantomime recognition.
(3) Martin pantomimes the motion, holing up his fingers dramatically, and Malhotra chimes in with a “ding!” when the phantom bullet falls.
(4) Findings suggest that whether an aphasic with a language comprehension defect is impaired in sound recognition or pantomime recognition depends, at least in part, on individually variable predisposing factors.
(5) Even if that means poking the front half of the pantomime horse where it hurts.
(6) Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, said: "It's pantomime season and the government joins in.
(7) Messages of two types (pantomime and emblem) were presented under four conditions (spoken message alone, spoken message repeated, gestured message alone, and spoken message plus redundant gesture).
(8) To investigate these issues, 24 psychotic children were required to represent absent objects (e.g., toothbrush) via pantomime after receiving verbal instructions or instructions accompanied by a model demonstrating the pantomime.
(9) And yet social care still finds itself very much the back half of the health-and-care pantomime horse.
(10) He called his pressure group founded to rid society of the evil of cake 'FUCKD and BOMBD' he described the effects of cake in lurid, pantomime terms that wouldn't have convinced a 14-year-old ingenue.
(11) While describing mimic and pantomimic aspects in depressive patients, the author points out how these features can often be found clearly reproduced in the paintings of artists.
(12) The pantomime came to an end and the cast departed Finally, in another plug for Guardians Of The Galaxy, Feige introduced a video of Chris Pratt and director James Gunn who accidentally on purpose revealed that a sequel has already received the green light and will open through Disney, as all Marvel films do, on 28 July 2017.
(13) Defects in sound recognition and pantomime recognition were found in association with a variety of lesion loci.
(14) We shouldn’t be passive onlookers to Trump’s pantomime presidency any longer.
(15) While the three language measures were strongly correlated with each other, auditory comprehension was the only one of them that was significantly and consistently related to the pantomime tests.
(16) Only Eurovision could offer up such a song: a plea for ethnic tolerance, cunningly disguised as an Abba track with the offcuts from a pantomime.
(17) Reed had said he would abstain because “it was a pantomime proposition and parliament at its most pointless”.
(18) This paper addresses the issue of the separability of disorders of sign language from disorders of gesture and pantomime.
(19) The BBC presenter confided to the Radio Times that he shares widespread public disdain for the "tawdry pretences" of modern politicians and the "green-bench pantomime" of Westminster politics.
(20) An earlier search, led by Crosby, became a pantomime as Tony Ball, the former Sky boss, made huge pay demands and the board was split over whether to meet them.
Speaking
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Speak
(a.) Uttering speech; used for conveying speech; as, man is a speaking animal; a speaking tube.
(a.) Seeming to be capable of speech; hence, lifelike; as, a speaking likeness.
Example Sentences:
(1) But when he speaks, the crowds who have come together to make a stand against government corruption and soaring fuel prices cheer wildly.
(2) Whittingdale also defended the right of MPs to use privilege to speak out on public interest matters.
(3) The cause has been innumerable "VIP movements", as journeys undertaken by those considered important enough for all other traffic to be held up, sometimes for hours, are described in South Asian bureaucratic speak.
(4) Many speak about how yoga and surfing complement each other, both involving deep concentration, flexibility and balance.
(5) Speaking to pro-market thinktank Reform, Milburn called for “more competition” and said the shadow health team were making a “fundamental political misjudgment” by attempting to roll back policies he had overseen.
(6) Speaking to a handpicked audience of community representatives, the prime minister said he had not allowed the EU to get its way.
(7) Technically speaking, this modality of brief psychotherapy is based on the nonuse of transferential interpretations, on impeding the regression od the patient, on facilitating a cognitice-affective development of his conflicts and thus obtain an internal object mutation which allows the transformation of the "past" into true history, and the "present" into vital perspectives.
(8) The distribution of cells at the stage of DNA synthesis and mitosis in all the parietal peritoneum speaks of the absence of special proliferation zones.
(9) Again, the boys in care that he abused now speak to us as broken adults.
(10) It’s the same story over and over.” Children’s author Philip Ardagh , who told the room he once worked as an “unprofessional librarian” in Lewisham, said: “Closing down a library is like filing off the end of a swordfish’s nose: pointless.” 'Speak up before there's nothing left': authors rally for National Libraries Day Read more “Today proves that support for public libraries comes from all walks of life and it’s not rocket science to work out why.
(11) Speaking in the BBC's Radio Theatre, Hall will emphasise the need for a better, simpler BBC, as part of efforts to streamline management.
(12) The ability to demonstrate selective augmentation of the functional matrix-associated receptor population, and our recent results showing that gonadotropes are indeed the responsive cells (Singh P, Muldoon TG, unpublished observations) speak to the specificity and relevance of these findings.
(13) Clare Gills, an American journalist and friend of Foley, wrote in 2013: “He is always striving to get to the next place, to get closer to what is really happening, and to understand what moves the people he’s speaking with.
(14) There is a certain degree of swagger, a sudden interruption of panache, as Alan Moore enters the rather sterile Waterstones office where he has agreed to speak to me.
(15) The debate certainly hit upon a larger issue: the tendency for people in positions of social and cultural power to tell the stories of minorities for them, rather than allowing minority communities to speak for themselves.
(16) Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, People's Liberation Army's chief of the general staff Gen Fang Fenghui also warned that the US must be objective about tensions between China and Vietnam or risk harming relations between Washington and Beijing.
(17) Speaking at The Carbon Show in London today, Philippe Chauvancy, director at climate exchange BlueNext, said that the announcement last week that it is to develop China's first standard for voluntary emission reduction projects alongside the government-backed China Beijing Environmental Exchange, could lay the foundations for a voluntary cap-and-trade scheme.
(18) "There were around 50 attackers, heavily armed in three vehicles, and they were flying the Shebab flag," Maisori added, speaking from the town, where several buildings including hotels, restaurants, banks and government offices were razed to the ground.
(19) Maryam Namazie, an Iranian-born campaigner against religious laws, had been invited to speak to the Warwick Atheists, Secularists and Humanists Society next month.
(20) A doctor the Guardian later speaks to insists it makes no sense.