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- verb Present participle of
theatricalize .
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Examples
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Mr. Gelb should understand this difference between a cheap "theatricalizing" of opera, a fundamental distrust of its ability to achieve its own effects in its own way-Mary Zimmerman's dumbly meta
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W.W. Gibson had already reinforced the "return to actuality" by turning from his first preoccupation with shining knights, faultless queens, ladies in distress and all the paraphernalia of hackneyed mediæval romances, to write about ferrymen, berry-pickers, stone-cutters, farmers, printers, circus-men, carpenters -- dramatizing (though sometimes theatricalizing) the primitive emotions of uncultured and ordinary people in
Modern British Poetry Louis Untermeyer 1931
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And though in Livelihood (1917) Gibson seems to be theatricalizing and merely exploiting his working-people, his later lyrics recapture the veracity of such memorable poems as "The Old Man," "The Blind Rower," and "The Machine."
Biographical Sketches Louis Untermeyer 1920
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Cirque du Soleil is as its best when it is theatricalizing truth.
chicagotribune.com - 2010
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Unluckily for Edelstein, Williams's beloved classic is one of the rare plays that doesn't require any directorial theatricalizing.
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Unluckily for Edelstein, Williams's beloved classic is one of the rare plays that doesn't require any directorial theatricalizing.
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"Abbie was a great rebel, but there is a danger in theatricalizing history."
GreenCine Daily 2009
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Fully exploiting the Chekhov-derived Russian genius for theatricalizing without waxing stagy,
GreenCine Daily 2009
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"Abbie was a great rebel, but there is a danger in theatricalizing history."
GreenCine Daily 2009
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Fully exploiting the Chekhov-derived Russian genius for theatricalizing without waxing stagy,
GreenCine Daily 2009
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