Sentence examples for dumb show from inspiring English sources
noun
A performance during which the players do not speak.
It's the smartest dumb show on television.
Sometimes even a dumb show can contain something important.
For long stretches there is none; the opening and closing scenes are largely dumb show.
Hoboys provided a grim overture to the dumb show in Hamlet.
At the end we're returned to dumb show, but here Ms. Pite chooses to outtrump Shakespeare.
It replaces all the lines of the first scene with another Shakespeare device, a dumb show -- the smartest dumb show I have ever seen.
These videos draw smaller but infinitely more voluble audiences than the dumb shows.
Gorboduc (1561) by Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton, the first English five-act drama in blank verse, used a five-part instrumental ensemble to accompany the dumb shows that introduced each act.
These new subjects, Hogarth's two-dimensional dumb shows, were the startling series A Harlot's Progress and A Rake's Progress.
That Fleischer didn't care what the press thought of him, that he was above entertaining anything but the most banal inquiries, made the briefings dumb shows instead of dialogues.
They spoke no French, he spoke no English, so he had to put on these foolish dumb shows with silly hats or Indian head-dresses, like the one Gary Cooper gave him".
