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
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
So much oratory has its touches of eloquence, so much theatricalism its flashes of theater.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was no curtain, no stage, no scenery, no theatricalism.
From Homespun Tales by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
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