Theatricality

As with most of these play, a great deal of the theatricality is outside of the words and “story.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

"real life" roles and the blurring, semi-transparent quality of lace, Marie Antoinette's theatricality is crucial for connecting her sartorial reign to the ❋ Unknown (2006)

“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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ Willard Spiegelman (2011)

And yet, like Moon, they also have something stylised, unearthly and unreal about them: a kind of theatricality which isn't too bad. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Adding to the theatricality was the arrival of Kold-Draft ice machines, which become de rigueur at the top cocktail caves. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Court intrigue ensues, and "theatricality" motivates numerous late stage plot poins. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Borden, we are told, is the superior magician, but it isn't until his act is supplemented by the kind of theatricality Angier specializes in that it takes off. ❋ Abigail Nussbaum (2007)

The fox and coachman sequence was suffused by Norman Ferguson's delightful brand of "theatricality" as Natwick called it and Shamus Culhane and Norman Tate played first and second violins to Fergies score that Disney had sanctioned. ❋ Hans Perk (2007)

Leonardo Bruni, and primarily in Florence, there developed a humanist historiography which went too far in its subservience to antiquity, breaking up the continuities of narrative and theme by its “annalistic” method, encouraging artifice by its restriction of vo - cabulary, and allowing rhetorical affections to carry it to a conventional kind of theatricality which pre - vented either the proper portrayal of men or the gen - uine interpretation of what had happened. ❋ HERBERT BUTTERFIELD (1968)

Even now, when fewer actors bring the wrong kind of theatricality from stage to screen, the freedom to modulate a speaking voice downward is rarely grasped; and if you listen to the better-known stars of the 1930s and 1940s, only a select company of them appear to have glimpsed and taken the opportunity: Ida Lupino, Barbara ❋ Unknown (2010)

"Don't Tease Me", a lowly derision of a cock-tease, employs dramatic fake strings (which really do sound like a synthesizer set to sound like strings) in an attempt to create a kind of theatricality as Paul's insufferable croon spews garbage out of the speakers: "If you want it don't tease me … Don't let my energy waste". ❋ Unknown (2010)

We have a kind of theatricality, but we don't just follow fashions. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The wedding was extravagant and theatrical, and bridezilla gave murderous glares whenever something went wrong, as if marriage was a performance. The news in the United States has become increasingly theatrical since [Edward R Murrow] covered [Joseph McCarthy]; just look at Glenn Beck. "Keeping up with the Kardashians" and the "Real Housewives of..." are theatrical and delightfully trashy in their demanding [histrionics]. ❋ Lorelili (2011)

"Did you see that [skater kid's] [theatrics] after he fell on his ass?" "Well sir, I've had enough of your [maniacal] theatrics...they're disruptive to this classroom and this institution!" "The theatrics of the very first Saturday Night Live group were subtle, colorful and well-timed making some of their skits some of the best televised comedy of all-time. ❋ Dr. Nordoslavic (2013)

"I want to do something that has [theatricality], a nod to the [glam] [rockers] that I love, but is also contemporary" ❋ Adman47 (2009)

'Eric's a bit theatrical, I [reckon'] 'You mean he's [a friend of dorothy]? 'Yep. [Backs to the wall].' ❋ Gieowermitherin (2009)

cloverfields or even [I am] [legends] "Endings" will [leave you] with theatrical blueballs. ❋ IwuzbornTwiztid (2008)

Jim: Hey, [what have you] been doing since the show ended? Joe: Not much, I've been dealing with a pretty bad case of [theatrical depression]. I haven't left the house in [two weeks]. ❋ Broadwayfreak (2010)

The [fat fucker] [sat] in front of me causing a total [theatrical eclipse]. ❋ TommyKinda (2009)

"[Pedro] immediately falls [asleep] during any movie, I think he suffers from Theatrical Narcolepsy." said [Geoff] ❋ G(f) (2009)

He was a [serious] [actor]. You could tell by the [theatrical arm] movements. ❋ Buttons0191 (2011)

Person 1: Why did you say you told that guy off? He totally made [you wet] yourself. Person 2: Shut up man! I gave them the [theatrical version] so they don't know I have [bladder] problems. Person 1: [Bladder] problems? Now I'm getting the theatrical version. ❋ Snizzard (2010)