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- noun Plural form of
theatricality .
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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There are extravagances, theatricalities, impossibilities enough.
Studies in Early Victorian Literature Frederic Harrison 1877
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"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
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"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
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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
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