theatricalism
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More culpably, Williams' gift for theatricalism makes the how of Suddenly Last Summer devour the why, turns the horrifying means into an end in itself.
From Time Magazine Archive
THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE—Early Shaw, revived by the Theatre Guild, and proving that early Shaw is a good deal better than most up-to-the-minute theatricalism.
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So much oratory has its touches of eloquence, so much theatricalism its flashes of theater.
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Yet, as Edmund Wilson observed in an otherwise critical essay: "There remains behind the journalism, the theatricalism and the tricks, a mind which does seem first-rate in its unpanicky scrutiny of life."
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And Lady Durwent, free of all theatricalism, was dumb with the mother's pain of losing her first-born.
From The Parts Men Play by Baxter, Arthur Beverley
