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.
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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."
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The acting styles range all the way from the theatricalism of Maurice Evans as a simpering Caesar to Mature's deadpanning.
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So much oratory has its touches of eloquence, so much theatricalism its flashes of theater.
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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