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Go through the motions?
Answer for the clue "Go through the motions? ", 4 letters:
mime
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. an actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression [syn: mimer , mummer , pantomimer , pantomimist ] a performance using gestures and body movements without words [syn: pantomime , dumb show ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mime \Mime\, v. i. To mimic. [Obs.] -- Mim"er , n.
Usage examples of mime.
Citizen Boyne, of course, was carefully opening every seam with graceful rending motions, miming great smooth effort of the biceps and trapezius.
Grands Danseurs on the boulevard du Temple, with its winning mixture of acrobatics, burlesque, pantomime, mime acts, song and sentimen-tal drama.
We have met, for instance, with several kinds of present-giving, with auguries for the New Year, with processions of carol-singers and well-wishers, with ceremonial feasting that anticipates the Christmas eating and drinking, and with various figures, saintly or monstrous, mimed or merely imagined, which we shall find reappearing at the greatest of winter festivals.
His intimates were gladiatorial stars like Mustela and Tiro, freedmen like Formio and Gnatho, actress-whores like Cytheris, actors like Hippias, mimes like Sergius, and gamblers like Licinius Denticulus.
As the period ticked away glacially, Arthur Lomb buzzed him twice, squinting to see the title of the comic, then pursing lips in false concentration as he mimed browsing the half-empty shelves nearby, before stepping close enough for Dylan to hear him speak in an angry, clenched whisper.
When he went to buy it, the shopkeeper would, in his earthy Chinese manner, designate it with a remarkable phonic mime of the substance at work.
He mimed thrusting movements with his hips as if to tell the poor unfortunates that he intended to sodomize them after he had killed them.
Should she not be a Happy Medium, a Plateau Potato, a Twanger, a Mime, a Dreamer, and Enhincer-Dincer?
Since the guards were prohibited from speaking to him, all communications were carried out in uneconomical and sometimes comic mime.
He could only recommend excommunication for the mimes and histrions who were corrupting the public taste.
Hundreds of men, women, and children passed to and fro through the gateway in incessant streams, and so they are passing through every daylight hour of every day in the year, thousands becoming tens of thousands on the great matsuri days, when the mikoshi, or sacred car, containing certain symbols of the god, is exhibited, and after sacred mimes and dances have been performed, is carried in a magnificent, antique procession to the shore and back again.
Matter with which this theory presents us comports in its own being all the realities, it is no longer the substrate of all: on the contrary, the other things can have no reality whatever, if they are no more than states of Matter in the sense that the poses of the mime are states through which he passes.
Then he beckoned Hawkril forward with a whirling of his hand, and mimed the thrusting of a warsword through the wall.
In Mime, which sees the universe as finite and expanding, the Mach hypothesis dictates that every point is a unique point of vantage- except for the metagalactic center, which is stress-free and in stasis because all the stresses cancel each other out, being equidistant.
His intimates were gladiatorial stars like Mustela and Tiro, freedmen like Formio and Gnatho, actress-whores like Cytheris, actors like Hippias, mimes like Sergius, and gamblers like Licinius Denticulus.