Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A theatrical, showy, or stagy action or thing.
- noun The state or character of being theatrical; theatrical appearance; histrionism.
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- noun
theatrical behaviour and mannerisms
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- noun an artificial and mannered quality
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Examples
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As with most of these play, a great deal of the theatricality is outside of the words and “story.”
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As with most of these play, a great deal of the theatricality is outside of the words and “story.”
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As with most of these play, a great deal of the theatricality is outside of the words and “story.”
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"real life" roles and the blurring, semi-transparent quality of lace, Marie Antoinette's theatricality is crucial for connecting her sartorial reign to the
Framing Romantic Dress: Mary Robinson, Princess Caroline and the Sex/Text 2006
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“Moves,” famous for being danced in silence, isn’t really so much a ballet as a series of sketches, and some of its repeated and outstretched splayed-hand gestures look phony, but Robbins’s theatricality is such that it still commands the attention of the general audience better than any other dance I have ever known performed without aural accompaniment.
Ballet in London: A Home Company on Tour - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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“Moves,” famous for being danced in silence, isn’t really so much a ballet as a series of sketches, and some of its repeated and outstretched splayed-hand gestures look phony, but Robbins’s theatricality is such that it still commands the attention of the general audience better than any other dance I have ever known performed without aural accompaniment.
Ballet in London: A Home Company on Tour - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Art historian Michael Fried, using the terms "theatricality" and "absorption," distinguishes between figures who seem to break out from a picture to engage with us, and those so deeply contained in thought or action that we impose ourselves upon them.
A Pathbreaker, Imitated Yet Unsurpassed Willard Spiegelman 2011
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And yet, like Moon, they also have something stylised, unearthly and unreal about them: a kind of theatricality which isn't too bad.
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Adding to the theatricality was the arrival of Kold-Draft ice machines, which become de rigueur at the top cocktail caves.
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Morrell and David Finn, which fashionably evokes in an abstract manner the ravages of a modern eastern European war zone and makes play with the idea of theatricality Venus is a prima donna, who performs on a stage within a stage.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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