pantomime
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And now, it’s coming after the pantomime chuggers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
A broadcaster and pantomime regular, he had limited experience of TV drama.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
Christopher Luscombe’s production of “The Magic Flute” wittily transformed Mozart’s Singspiel into a British pantomime, a closely related theatrical tradition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Argentina are so often painted as the pantomime villains of international football - particularly by England fans.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
By question 11 — “I am terrible at pantomime, as in games like charades” — he was laughing out loud.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
Kingsley pantomimes resisting repeated entreaties amid the cacophony.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
In pantomimes, the audience boos the villain and cheers the hero; in parliament, political leaders are cast in these roles with MPs jeering.
From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2025
While pantomimes often feature big names and familiar faces, it is less common for a politician to get involved – but not unheard of.
From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2025
Hill explained his stepfather, Tony, had met his mother in an amateur dramatics group, and often wrote pantomimes and starred in them as the dame.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2025
She pantomimes gardening gestures at me and taps her index finger on an imaginary watch.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
First, there’s a pantomimed back story: During the overture, actors depicting the lovers as young teens flirt and are discouraged by adults.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
Reporters tried at least four more times to get Sanders to answer similar questions, eliciting only a similar pantomimed response.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2025
Meyers, hearing her teammate talk that talk, snapped her fingers and pantomimed a mic drop.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2023
Gone are the white gloves and the pantomimed motions of slaves at work as Jefferson arrives at Monticello; now some members of the ensemble stand at a distance, and don’t even join in the singing.
From New York Times ● Oct. 23, 2021
The way the child asked for assistance without speaking and the mother pointed, nodded, and pantomimed her child out of a fix.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
Mohammad Javad Zarif, who was then Iran’s foreign minister, would sometimes retreat to the back of the room during the nuclear talks and put his head in his hands, pantomiming despair.
From Slate ● May 1, 2026
You may find yourself pantomiming with one of your feet to your children in the persona of “Mr. Stinkyfoot,” a somewhat boorish Frenchman who espouses the importance of cleanliness and the needs for a bath.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026
In most films, the background actors are pantomiming.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2024
After the Heat called a timeout, a courtside fan near the Celtics’ bench could be seen pantomiming fanning White on the sideline.
From Seattle Times ● May 1, 2024
They loved to point Adah out when they saw us, pantomiming a lion’s roar, which didn’t help us to put the affair behind us.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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