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theatricality

/thee-a-tri-kuhl/US // θiˈæ trɪ kəl //UK // (θɪˈætrɪkəl) //

戏剧性,戏曲性,戏剧化,舞台性

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Also the·at·ric.

    • : of or relating to the theater or dramatic presentations: theatrical performances.
    • : suggestive of the theater or of acting; artificial, pompous, spectacular, or extravagantly histrionic: a theatrical display of grief.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : theatricals, dramatic performances, now especially as given by amateurs.artificial or histrionic actions.
    • : a professional actor: a family of renowned theatricals.

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Examples

  • Even if movies wind up making most of their revenue when they get to on-demand and streaming platforms, their enduring value is still created and unleashed during theatrical runs.

  • Even as its moves its 2021 titles to HBO Max, it is currently shooting a new take on “The Batman,” an expensive movie with star Robert Pattinson, the expense of which can only be recouped with a major theatrical release.

  • Google fires a leading researcher, Stripe launches a new banking service and WarnerMedia shakes up the theatrical business model.

  • Some of the talent involved in your movies can receive payouts based in part on theatrical revenues.

  • The alternative is allowing studios to skip theatrical runs completely and put their new content exclusively online.

  • Before I understood the political elements, I loved it for the colorful, shameless theatricality.

  • I think the story feels so real to people that despite its theatricality and surrealism, they often dwell on the realism.

  • There is just a lot of creativity and theatricality in performers who happen to be gay.

  • What it did do, however, was remind everyone what fashion was before it became thick with theatricality and flamboyance.

  • To add to the theatricality, actors are engaged to entertain guests with performances of the most offending passages.

  • But when the curtain rises on the hall of the Gibichungs we at once get more artificiality and theatricality.

  • The cultivation of this habit ought to be, and I believe is in some cases, a safeguard against theatricality.

  • Fortunately, he missed that slight note of theatricality in Julian's demeanour which might have left the situation still dubious.

  • The means to climax range from mere action to quiet speech, from pure theatricality to lifelike subtlety.

  • Except when theatricality is intentionally part of the artistic design, it is, of course, undesirable.