Example sentences for: mimes

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  • In terms of traditional sightseeing, both La Rambla, with its squawking birds and brilliantly attired mimes, and Parc Guëll, Gaudí’s playground for children of all ages, prove very diverting (see pages 57).

  • You’ll wade your way through jugglers, fire-eaters, tarot-card readers, lottery-ticket sellers, more mimes, mendicants, and many artists rapidly knocking out portraits, caricatures, and chalk masterwork reproductions on the pavement.

  • Bogotá drivers flash cards with a thumbs-up or thumbs-down logo at fellow motorists, and government-hired street mimes mock litterers and jaywalkers.

  • When a Japanese sword he has purchased falls off his wall, he hefts it; mimes a fight while issuing strangled, samurailike cries; then has a brainstorm.

  • You’ll also see the first of La Rambla’s celebrated mimes, or “human statues,” portraying Christopher Columbus, priests, bearded nuns, and Roman soldiers, among many other guises.


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