Thus, at least on one level, music mimes the narrative progress of the text, conspiring with it to ignore the trail of discontinuities left by the constraints of censorship.
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They literally just mimed everything, they went through the entire actions, but they were allowed to get through to the very end that time, those actors.
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The dance was too exact an inscription of the music: repetition of any musical event could do no more than inspire repetition of its attendant mimed gesture.
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She locates female constitutive power in the body, arguing that music which mimes physical gestures can allow the usually gazed-upon female body to deflect that gaze.
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She mimed the words ' icing sugar ' to her neighbour and, rather than saying the words out loud, she mimed the numbers as she pointed to and counted the cakes.
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There are a number of miming societies in the country.
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The children always contributed to school shows, most often in mimed sketches.
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They are playing a piece of miming.
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During rehearsals, the reading expanded into a production with one naked actor miming the text with several dolls.
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In future my descendants for eighty generations shall serve thee as thy mimes in ordinary.
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Consequently, he forbade mimes from appearing on stage in public.
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Examples include kneading bread dough, wringing out a towel, avoiding laser-beams or miming the shape of an imaginary object.
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With three of the children having their backs turned to the action, the emcee mimes out a situation to the first child.
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The band twice appeared live in the studio, miming to the song.
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In contrast to memes, the fecundity of mimes as replicators and their fidelity of replication are limited, more so in pre-linguistic contexts.
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