If I do not succeed they resort to dumb show.

"Do you anticipate our marrying in a kind of dumb show?"

It was like watching the television with the sound turned down, a dumb show for eight fingers and two thumbs.

I brought you up to be an actor, not a mugger in dumb shows.

But this is only half an explanation for the scandalous dumb show.

He went through the same dumb show as before, then turned as if to leave the place.

How many times had she had to stand and watch this dumb show of justice?

That's the scene that I would see, which will be merely a dumb show.

Mother Earth made a dumb show of looking in her pocket and, not surprisingly, there they were.

It is possibly the dumbest show I have seen in a long time.