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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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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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.
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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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Except in the great crises we all act with a certain theatricalism, do the thing books and plays and the example of others have taught us to do.
From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by Phillips, David Graham
