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To him, Mickey Mousing means "patently false posturing."

No extra mousing required."

The film's soundtrack also adds to the cartoon atmosphere by matching the action exactly (a technique known as Mickey Mousing) and commenting on it.

Much Ado About Mousing is a 1964 cartoon directed and produced by Chuck Jones.

It was Disney, too, that gave us the term Mickey Mousing, used to describe scores that mimic too obviously the movements of nature.

Opportunity Knocks After the harvest at York Farm, the foreman asked Melony to stay on to help with the mousing.

Hooter wasn't so pleased at the ranger's instructions; the journey could take a week, valuable and enjoyable time at this height of the mousing and mating season.

In animation and film, "Mickey Mousing" (synchronized, mirrored, or parallel scoring) is a film technique that syncs the accompanying music with the actions on screen.

This is very comfortable for right-handed gamers and seen as the primary advantage over using WASD, but it is ill-suited for left-handed mousing.

In his long and skinny shanks there was none of the grace but all the intensity of a cat going about its fatal mousing, the patience, the grim reserve of a predator.

He gave orders for the mousing of the horses, desired Mr Parker to see what he could make of the frigate, sent Haines forward, and settled to watch in peace.

These offer pixel-accurate mousing and multitouch together, but they don't offer any kind of "direct manipulation;" the gestures can be performed anywhere on the multitouch surface and the effect is the same.

"Mickey Mousing" is also used to criticize that a visual action is - without good reason - being duplicated in accompanying music or text, therefore being a weakness of the production rather than a strength.

Mickey Mousing may use music to "reinforce an action by mimicking its rhythm exactly....Frequently used in the 1930s and 1940s, especially by Max Steiner, it is somewhat discredited today, at least in serious films, because of overuse.

'Mickey Mousing Around' "If I could," he said, "I would tell them to their faces that I demand more substance instead of this Mickey Mousing around in Trenton.

In Bell Hoppy (1954), for example, in a twist on "belling the cat", Sylvester must hang a bell around a mouse's neck in order to join the "Loyal Order of Alley Cats and Mousing and Chowder Club".

Chaplin, Mr. Davis said, mingled little thematic gestures, a technique known to studio musicians as "Mickey Mousing," with larger mood and action sequences, creating what Mr. Davis sees as a challenge to the conductor, who has no leeway in choosing tempos, since the scene moves at a fixed pace.