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US
/θiˌætɹəˈkæɫəˌti/
]
[ UK /θiːˈætɹɪkˈælɪti/ ]
[ UK /θiːˈætɹɪkˈælɪti/ ]
NOUN
- an artificial and mannered quality
How To Use theatricality In A Sentence
- I was fascinated by the theatricality of the event.
- More precisely, the film is a hymn to the theatricality implicit in most love affairs: their deceptive art and sweet fraudulence.
- And, where narrative clarity falters, choreographic invention steps in with unabashed theatricality.
- When it comes to onstage theatricality and over the top rock and roll antics, these are the names that come to mind.
- Unless you are a celebrity on professional display, forget this consumer theatricality.
- In France, abstraction does still exist, but there is also a Latin element, a wittiness, a German-influenced theatricality intrinsic to the choreographers’ work, he said.
- The text calls for a curtain to be drawn, revealing with fine theatricality the living Hermione posing as her statue.
- Similarly, the theatricality that once branded some realist paintings as kitsch no longer seems a necessarily negative attribute.
- Whiteface and blackface were not only associated in theatricality; in a more profound sense, they both replicated similar stereotypes.
- The speech reflected his love of theatricality and rhetoric.