How To Use Silent movie In A Sentence
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Visitors entering the glitzy enclosure will be confronted by a fleetingly full-frontal silent movie in which the artist's drag-queen alter ego, "Miss Chief Eagle Testickle" (sic), has "her" way with two white men—drunken hunks clothed (and unclothed) in loincloths.
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She dozes as images slide in and out of her mind, snapshots from a 1930s silent movie.
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Likewise, when talkies replaced silent movies, many stars of the earlier era were unable to adapt and became human relics.
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His best character - the loveable and naive Little Tramp, who spins his cane and trips over his shoes - epitomises what silent movies were about, before talkies took over the big screen.
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Often a parody of what people think of as silent movie acting, Valentino became an exotic heart-throb with gleaming eyes and flaring nostrils, in The Sheik, Blood and Sand and Monsieur Beaucaire.
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The august American thesp starred in an early silent movie version.
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Dom DeLuise, who spiced up such movies as "Blazing Saddles," "Silent Movie" and "The Cannonball Run" with his manic delivery and roly-poly persona, has died, his son's publicist told CNN.
Dom DeLuise -- 1933-2009
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A letter hidden for years by British silent movie pioneer Charlie Chaplin has come to light which claims he lied about his birthplace and was in fact born in a gypsy caravan.
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A silent movie doesn't mean it is motionless.
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'Silent movie' is a misnomer since the movies usually had a musical accompaniment.
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The transition from silent movies to talkies destroyed many actors' careers, as did the shift from black-and-white to color.
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With its photographic vignettes set against black backgrounds, outlined and captioned in white, perhaps the album that Mary von Rosen fashioned resembles nothing so much as a silent movie.
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Despite pinching from everything from silent movies to CSI, the ring scenes get old fast, mostly because they hold no surprises.
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By the silent movie era, public discourse about children focused on their safety and proper socialization.
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Where else in Montreal can you see bands and spoken word acts, watch silent movies with live music, draw comix with your buddies, buy art from a vending machine or chow down on a tasty veggie sandwich?
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We have the two carolling CDs and the silent movie.
Everyday Life in Postapocalyptic America
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Like a silent movie, we watched in horror as one of them pointed up the mountain at the guided missile approaching, and they scattered in all directions, quite literally for their lives.
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You've all heard it somewhere, most likely as the plinking piano in the background of some silent movie.
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A silent movie doesn't mean it is motionless.
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In the silent movie The Snowman by Wallace McCutcheon, a chain-smoking snowman is swigging whiskey and appears in the rest of the film sloshed, inspiring a flogging by the townspeople.
Boing Boing
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It is practically a silent movie, relying on sound effects, rather than dialogue.
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In a snafu worthy of WCW, the ring wasn't miked properly which made most of the moves and almost all pinfall attempts come off like watching a silent movie.
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She has been variously likened to David Bowie, a painting by Vermeer and a face from a silent movie.
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Likewise, when talkies replaced silent movies, many stars of the earlier era were unable to adapt and became human relics.
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The series includes shots of her mimicking silent movie stars and fluffing her fringe into a quiff; they were spontaneous and fun.
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Robert Downey Jr received acclaim, and an Oscar nomination, for his pitch-perfect performance as the great silent movie era comic Charlie Chaplin in Richard Attenborough's sprawling 1992 film.
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A silent movie doesn't mean it is motionless.