theatricalism

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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."

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

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

I'm going to introduce a course in practical theatricalism.

From Seeing Things at Night by Broun, Heywood