Example Sentences

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“The theatricalization of it was as much about how the audience engaged with the work as about the source narrative,” she said.

From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2022

What has become commonplace is the theatricalization of the wedding.

From Washington Post • Dec. 28, 2021

Of course, there is more at stake here than the creation and normalization of a culture of lying and what Walter Benjamin, Guy Debord and others identified as the theatricalization and aestheticization of politics.

From Salon • May 18, 2019

The result — and it wouldn't surprise me if the uninitiated feel this way as well — is a spiritually transcendent theatricalization of the tale that had me silently shouting "hallelujah" and "amen."

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2015

But the value of his late experimental work was distinctly anti-Broadway: it was about the theatricalization of certain lonely truths, like the desire to speak and the work that goes into making a true sentence.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 9, 2014