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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

Benedict Nelson, a stylish singer of quiet authority, never overplays Figaro, which comes as welcome relief in this raffish, pantomimic staging.

From The Guardian • Mar. 3, 2013

I’ve never done such a pantomimic thing before.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2012

They held dialogues on the subject, while with pantomimic license the chorus of Egyptian lasses was dancing round the Dragon as if it were a maypole.

From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Zangwill, Israel