theatricalism
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The acting styles range all the way from the theatricalism of Maurice Evans as a simpering Caesar to Mature's deadpanning.
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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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But, taken as a whole, the play fails, and for three reasons: a faultiness of structure, an obsessiveness of attitude, an empurpling theatricalism.
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It must be admitted that for sheer theatricalism that gentleman beat any composer who preceded him.
From Richard Wagner Composer of Operas by John F. Runciman
