theatricalism

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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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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