theatricalism
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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.
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
And just as, after the wreck of some great liner, only trifles are left floating over the grave of the Titan, so the woman's surface theatricalism survived the loss of more considerable things.
From The Messenger by Robins, Elizabeth
