theatricalities

Maybe if she actually had some experience and a voting record she could stand on, she wouldn't need all these theatricalities and games.

Hillary Says Obama Is Politicizing Bhutto Assassination 2009

When I think of all that I have done for that man, the acts I have defended, the stupidities I have tried to convert into statesmanship, the tempers I have been the butt of, the childish insults I have had to tolerate, the theatricalities

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 25, 1917 Various

It employed all the conventions, the theatricalities, of the modern stage; yet her personality triumphed over not only Professor Murray's verse but her own training.

Euripides and Professor Murray Thomas Stearns 1920

He must still stay an unwilling prisoner in this garden of studied indolence, this playground of invalids and gamblers; he must still dawdle idly about these glittering, stagnating squares, fringing a crowd of meaningless foreigners, skulking half-fed and poorly housed about this opulent showplace of the world that set its appeasing theatricalities into motion only at the touch of ready gold.

Phantom Wires A Novel Arthur Stringer 1912

It was only then that she was conscious of the theatricalities from which she had emerged, of the man so close beside her, still waiting for her play-acting word of decision.

Phantom Wires A Novel Arthur Stringer 1912

Chavannes should be equally enthusiastic about the frigid theatricalities of an E.A. A.bey or the forbidding and opaque intricate dexterity of a John Sargent in the same building.

Your United States Impressions of a first visit Arnold Bennett 1899

There are extravagances, theatricalities, impossibilities enough.

Studies in Early Victorian Literature Frederic Harrison 1877

"Go straight to life!" said his new poetic code; and here was the opportunity; -- here, also, the real "adventure," in comparison of which his previous efforts that way seemed childish theatricalities, fit only to cheat a little the profound ennui of actual life.

Imaginary Portraits Walter Pater 1866

"Go straight to life!" said his new poetic code; and here was the opportunity; -- here, also, the real "adventure," in comparison of which his previous efforts that way seemed childish theatricalities, fit only to cheat a little the profound ennui of actual life.

Imaginary Portraits Walter Pater 1866

Pardonable are human theatricalities; nay perhaps touching, like the passionate utterance of a tongue which with sincerity stammers; of a head which with insincerity babbles, -- having gone distracted.

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838