A little contemporary story related by Herodotus shows that these pantomimic performances were now becoming fashionable in Athens.
As for humour, such as was indigenous in the country, it was only represented by a few Saturnian snatches, some Fescennine banterings at weddings and harvest-homes, and rude pantomimic performances also originating in Etruria.
Of this kind is that aroused by the rapid changes of form and colour of the kaleidoscope, and those pantomimic representations which amuse the young and uneducated, and others who live mostly in the senses.
Of all the pantomimic dramatis personae, we consider the pantaloon the most worthless and debauched.
The usual pantomimic ceremony of nodding and sipping gone through)— ‘Tottle, were you ever in Suffolk?
The dismayed Cymon concealed himself behind the curtain with pantomimic suddenness.
As regards the secular dances of the ancient Greeks, it may be observed that some of them were similar to the pantomimic exhibitions which are still relished by several nations.
The singular procedure of the Maori warriors in New Zealand in a certain dance, of projecting all of them their tongues simultaneously at fixed intervals, appears to be a pantomimic expression of defiance or contempt for the enemy.
Phoebe threw down a whole handful of cents, which he picked up with joyless eagerness, handed them over to the Italian for safekeeping, and immediately recommenced a series of pantomimic petitions for more.
What, (I would ask of the crowd, that press forward to the pantomimic tragedies and weeping comedies of Kotzebue and his imitators), what are you seeking?
Probably a pantomimic ballet on a tragic subject; for, as Heinrich says, what had Paris, the mime, to do with a new tragedy?
Every stage dancer employs as well her face, hands and arms in giving expression to grace, beauty, and the many interpretations of her pantomimic art.
By that I mean no pantomimic by-play or facial expression.
I was moved by this spectacle at the time, and subsequently this pantomimic dance was generally referred to as the culminating moment in her impersonation of Salome.
Fortunately, the writer of the book remembered that Miss Garden had danced in Salome and he introduced a similar pantomimic episode in Natoma, a dagger dance, which was one of the interesting points in the action.
She was followed by Mary Garden, who discovered what every one should have noticed in the beginning, that the composer has given the singer a long rest after the pantomimic episode.
The Ostyak tribe of Northern Asia give us a specimen of the rude imitative dances of early civilization in a Pantomimic exhibition of the Chase; the gambols and habits of the wolf and other wild beasts.
In 1868, he went into Pantomime, toured "Humpty Dumpty," and for some twenty years afterwards kept the Pantomimic ball merrily rolling until his retirement at Chicago into private life.
The history of a people is often detected in their popular amusements; one of these Italian Pantomimic characters shows this.
The whole of the persons engaged in the scene now undergo the prescriptive Pantomimic changes, and the ordinary succession of Harlequinade adventures, tricks, and transformations ensue.
Some of the young slaves whom he encountered took him to the theatres, and in the pantomimic displays and Atellan fables a cynical shamelessness reigned supreme.
The allusions to the dancing of the pantomimic actors may all be found in Lucan’s De Saltatione; Vell.
He represented in pantomimic dance the scene of Achilles in the island of Scyros.
Brown's pantomimic attempts at direction were obscure even to me, and I am sure the driver thought he had gone out of his mind.
The pantomimic violence of the sergeant, together with diagrams in my sketch-book, were ultimately successful.
Wally, who put his chair out again in the passage, had most of his time occupied in making pantomimic appeals for silence from passers-by, to whom he pointed out the figure of the sleeping Mr Rollitt as a justification.
From the cradle to the grave, sleeping or waking, pantomimic expression is never absent.
An attitude accentuates a condition or feeling by prolonging its pantomimic suggestion.
We find this principle specially manifest in pantomimic expression.
They, however, belong to the subject of pantomimic expression, rather than to a general discussion of the nature of the monologue and the chief peculiarities of its interpretation.
His pantomimic powers were considerable, and his agility was scarcely inferior to that of the four-handed brutes whom he represented.
Opposite the Greyhound was another new venture, Chettle's, in which a pantomimicentertainment called Frolicsome Lasses was presented, with singing and dancing between the acts, and a display of fireworks at the end.
He used to kiss Mnester, the pantomimic actor, publicly in the theatre; and if any person made the least noise while he was dancing, he would order him to be dragged from his seat, and scourged him with his own hand.
And Mnester, the pantomimic actor, performed in a play, which the tragedian Neoptolemus had formerly acted at the games in which Philip, the king of Macedon, was slain.
So profoundly had he been impressed with the extraordinary clearness ofpantomimic representation.
And Timocrates, his teacher, after accidentally witnessing a pantomimic performance, exclaimed: 'How much have I lost by my scrupulous devotion to philosophy!
Now, to begin with, you seem to be quite ignorant of the antiquity of the pantomimic art.
Men of the highest rank and position are not ashamed to take part in these performances: indeed, they pride themselves more on their pantomimic skill than on birth and ancestry and public services.
An over-fed gourmand, whose hopes of happiness are evidently centred on perishable things, is exulting, with pantomimic rapture, over a delicacy in the way of fish.
By a slow movement and with many a backward glance to see whether he is being watched, he reaches the end of the dancing place which evidently represents the stream for he goes through a pantomimic drinking.
The sudden extinguishment of thesepantomimic stars, revealed to the surprised revellers the presence of the dawn, before whose coming the stars of every sphere go out, and revelry gives place to the sober realities of life.
Sorcery he conceives of as an operation of one soul upon another; either directly, or indirectly by various appliances, such as pantomimic injury by means of an image.
Much pantomimic Magic may be best understood as attempting to set up such currents of causation rather than as directly causative.
But although this impulse may initiate pantomimic magic, it can hardly maintain it in the absence of any deeper satisfaction.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pantomimic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
