pantomime
noun
the art or technique of conveying emotions, actions, feelings, etc., by gestures without speech.
pantomimical
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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
These remind us of the extemporal comedy and the pantomimical characters of Italy, invented by actors of genius.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Isaac Disraeli
In a lecture, Dee executed a piece of mechanical invention which now would have been pantomimical, but was then necromantic.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
His style of dancing was entirely burlesque, and accompanied with strange grimaces, and pantomimical distortions of the face, which, though at times inexpressibly ridiculous, yet, on the whole, was without much meaning or expression.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Robert Kerr
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 James Russell Lowell
