theatricalism

[thee-a-tri-kuh-liz-uhm] / θiˈæ trɪ kəˌlɪz əm /

NOUN

showy behavior

Synonyms

WEAK

acting exhibitionism histrionics stagecraft staginess theatricality theatricalness theatrics

Example Sentences

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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

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

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."

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

There was an amazing, almost tangible spirit in the place: a mingling of childlike devotion and equally childlike theatricalism.

From Mavis of Green Hill by Baldwin, Faith