theatricalism
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Origin of theatricalism
First recorded in 1850–55; theatrical + -ism
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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.
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
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 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
He laughed with a sense of treating himself to a theatricalism.
From Erik Dorn by Hecht, Ben
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