theatricalism

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So much oratory has its touches of eloquence, so much theatricalism its flashes of theater.

From Time Magazine Archive

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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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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"Don't you love him—really?" cried Constance, face and voice full of the most thrilling theatricalism.

From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by Phillips, David Graham