mute
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Kinski played Mignon, a mute acrobat and street performer, in the film.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026
About three hours later, James called NHS 111 and told the operator his brother had gone immobile and had become mute.
From BBC • May 12, 2026
They include a teenage boy with a piggy bank full of videogame winnings, a young woman in need of a heart transplant, a cash-poor film producer and a mute priest.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
This fantasy chat plays out in all its white cluelessness as the sitcom rewinds and repeats on mute.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026
Art has been called a visual dialogue, for though the object itself is mute, it expresses its creator’s intention just as surely as if it were speaking to us.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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