Example Sentences

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“It’s loose-limbed. It’s a pantomimic kind of movement, and it’s usually comic by nature. It’s essentially wrapped around the character.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2019

Kim Jong-un, pantomimic pastiche of Stalin, would not exist.

From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2017

And Buki Shiff’s bright, pantomimic costumes smartly traveled time, morphing the 16th century into the 19th.

From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2015

Out go the opera's pantomimic spectacle, big processions and trios of boys and ladies.

From The Guardian • Mar. 16, 2011

What with these two lights, the aurora, which has been dancing so merrily for many hours, looks slightly pale, though the colours displayed are more glorious than any pantomimic transformation scene your mind could imagine.

From In the Land of the Great Snow Bear A Tale of Love and Heroism by Stables, Gordon