Definitions
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- noun A form of
Japanese theatre in which elaborately costumed male performers use stylized movements, dances, and songs in order to enact tragedies and comedies.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Vogel deserves a medal for writing two pages on this without one use of the word "kabuki."
HUFFPOST HILL - Much-Needed White Guy Enters 2012 GOP Primary Eliot Nelson 2011
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Of course not, well maybe to the point of engaging in kabuki theater to convince the gullible Democrats that Alito and Roberts were just umpires and not activists from the bench …
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I agree with the theories that it would make a lot of sense if this was all kabuki from the start.
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I mean this looks like -- I use the expression kabuki dance, to talk about rather well-orchestrated nonsense, but is this just another kabuki dance brought to you courtesy of the Bush administration?
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In American politics this protest is the type of thing that is sometimes called a kabuki dance, a show of passion and interest that everyone knows is staged and that nobody, even those claiming to be outraged, takes seriously.
Japan’s war guilt 2006
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In American politics this protest is the type of thing that is sometimes called a kabuki dance, a show of passion and interest that everyone knows is staged and that nobody, even those claiming to be outraged, takes seriously.
China at war 2006
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I guess in kabuki there’s often an inaka girl and a machi, or city, girl.
THREE DEGREES OF SEPARATION: Sentimental Journey to Watsonville 2006
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I guess in kabuki there’s often an inaka girl and a machi, or city, girl.
August 2006 2006
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Since the word kabuki is believed to derive from the verb kabuku, meaning "to lean" or "to be out of the ordinary", kabuki can be interpreted as "avant-garde" or "bizarre" theatre. [
Latest Articles National Review. 2009
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"The confirmation process has been called a kabuki dance as opposed to being a real look at the nominee," said Kinports, who clerked on the Supreme Court.
Penn State Live 2010
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