After all, that kind of theatricalism is unthinkable in Russia.

The book has a sort of magical epic theatricalism, which I think should translate.

"Partly, of course, this march is sheer theatricalism.

Critics struggled to understand him, astonished by the absence of "theatricalism", intoning the words "real truth" and "real life" like incantations.

The combination of ideas and passionate theatricalism made "Waste" potent enough to be censored by Britain's Lord Chamberlain in 1907 and languish unperformed until 1936.

They were responsible for the spread of basilicas modeled after Il Gisu, stylistic vocabulary of the Bohemian Dientzenhofer family and the baroque theatricalism found for instance at Leopoldina university in Breslau.

My friend was more wrought upon than I had suspected, for at this touch of harmless theatricalism he started neurotically away from me and actually cried out with a sort of gulping gasp which released a strain of previous repression.

In fact, the shows themselves, often held in unlikely settings - a synagogue, an East Village park, a public school courtyard transformed into a classical arena - gave proof of his gifts for theatricalism, organization and, not least, public relations.

For instance, unlike most fighting games made in Japan, the characters in the series (including the announcer) generally speak only in Japanese, with dialects ranging from archaic formalities and theatricalism to modern-day slang, something that has been preserved for overseas releases.

Perhaps the kindest thing ever said about him by an intellectual came from Edmund Wilson, who wrote in 1940 that "there remains behind the journalism, the theatricalism and the tricks . . . a mind which does seem first-rate in its un panicky scrutiny of life."

The strident bids for a richer-hued theatricalism - Doc's drunk scene, the spinster schoolteacher's hysteria in "Picnic," the suicide in "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs" - sort of stick out like palm trees on a Kansas prairie.

In the "last flowering" of his talent, Godwin produced domestic architecture in a very different mode from the theatricalism of his Gothic Revival work, including a series of houses and studios on Tite Street in the Chelsea section of London.