pantomimical
- a word derived from pantomime.
Example Sentences
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As to our Florentine's Heaven, it is full of beauties also, though sometimes of a more questionable and pantomimical sort than is to be found in either of the other books.
From Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 1 by Dante Alighieri
His accents, usually sharp and high, were now lingering and low; his fiery phraseology was solemn and touching, and even his gesture, habitually wild, distorted, and pantomimical, was subdued and simple.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various
Yet she is a fine thing, speaking in a worldly way: for there are two distinct tempers of mind in which we judge of things,—the worldly, theatrical and pantomimical; and the unearthly, spiritual and ethereal.
From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Bradley, Andrew Cecil
Yet she is a fine thing, speaking in a worldly way; for there are two distinct tempers of mind in which we judge of things:—the worldly, theatrical, and pantomimical; and the unearthly, spiritual, and ethereal.
From Life of John Keats by Rossetti, William Michael
Yet she is a fine thing, speaking in a worldly way; for there are two distinct tempers of mind in which we judge of things,—the worldly, theatrical, and pantomimical; and the unearthly, spiritual, and ethereal.
From Among My Books Second Series by Lowell, James Russell
