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Even the bluffs that occasionally jutted into the sea did the picturesque in a half-theatrical fashion.

From In the Footprints of the Padres by Stoddard, Charles Warren

Then he took his hat, and with a half-theatrical bow all round, and a smile at Sacovitch, he left the room.

From In Direst Peril by Murray, David Christie

With this grave admonition, delivered in a half-theatrical tone of voice, I draped my "toga" so as to hide any imperfection of my interior costume, and descended majestically into the boat.

From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Lever, Charles James

I cut the enclosed from a sort of half-sporting, half-theatrical paper our fellows get; no doubt the paragraph is true enough.

From Macleod of Dare by Black, William

Their half-theatrical exhibition reminded her of some play she had seen; they might be the clue to some story, or the mere worthless hoardings of a diseased fancy.

From By Shore and Sedge by Harte, Bret