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n. - An artificial and mannered quality.

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  • As with most of these play, a great deal of the theatricality is outside of the words and “story.”
  • And yet, like Moon, they also have something stylised, unearthly and unreal about them: a kind of theatricality which isn't too bad.
  • "real life" roles and the blurring, semi-transparent quality of lace, Marie Antoinette's theatricality is crucial for connecting her sartorial reign to the
  • 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.
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