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.
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
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
So much oratory has its touches of eloquence, so much theatricalism its flashes of theater.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
