mime
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Whereas a previous trailer for the movie featured jokes about electrocuting butts and how Mr. Mime is, well, a mime, the latest promotional video is 100% snark-free.
From Slate • Apr. 23, 2019
Part of the reason that tactic has worked so well — whether for Billy the Mime or Tig Notaro — is the expectation of the relief of the joke.
From New York Times • Jul. 26, 2018
They set up Mime et moi in 2013, and sold their first shoe three years later.
From BBC • Sep. 13, 2017
Mime artist and early collaborator Lindsay Kemp revealed that, around the turn of the 70s, he had mooted the idea of bringing Charles Kingsley’s The Water Babies to the stage.
From The Guardian • Jan. 10, 2017
Siegfried flew into a great rage, and while he foamed about the smithy, the Mime got himself behind the anvil, to keep himself out of the angry fellow's way.
From Operas Every Child Should Know Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces by Bacon, Mary Schell Hoke
Vocabulary lists containing mime
Theater - Introductory
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Theater - Middle School
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Theater - High School
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