Sentence examples for theatrical exaggeration from inspiring English sources

Now, as then, however, the style smacked of theatrical exaggeration and was not entirely persuasive".

The antic fizz and theatrical exaggeration of his earlier work have blossomed into a newly sophisticated style, one that is far more wise and deeply felt.

What was once a playwright's dream made flesh, a production in which theatrical exaggeration seemed truer than life itself, is now a simple comic strip.

Now, as then, however, the style smacked of theatrical exaggeration and was not entirely persuasive". And Jiang Lili still adores gentle Mr. Cheng, whose heart has belonged to Wang Qiyao ever since he photographed her in his studio.

Some of the lawyers seem to amuse themselves with theatrical exaggeration, or maybe they are simply mugging for the camera, like the lawyer who proclaims, on winning a case: "Right now I feel like a king.

There's a febrile artifice to Payne's setup and a tinge of theatrical exaggeration in the performances (including those of Dern and Forte) that contrast somewhat gratingly with the silky, painterly widescreen black-and-white images — and that very abrasion is the stuff of the movie.

Mr. Preston's book filled our heads with "wildly gruesome notions" about how Ebola patients die, Mr. Quammen suggests, and he shoots down many of what he and others feel were Mr. Preston's theatrical exaggerations.

In his derisively satirical view, the well-meaning media depicts the day's furies and outrages in an oblivious objectivity that misses the deeper truths that this movie's own theatrical exaggerations are meant to capture.

But Arkadina does come from a theatrical tradition of exaggeration, of gaining applause at all costs.

The John Kirby Sextet's soloists were among the best of the time (for instance, Bud Powell considered Kyle one of his key influences, and Bailey's fluid, fanciful, sharply rhythmic solos are perhaps the very summit of jazz clarinet), but the band's theatrical humor and exaggerations are its exemplary element of modernism.

Christopher Durang's theatrical specialty is a kind of gleeful comic exaggeration that falls somewhere between farce and satire, between mischief and mayhem, in that territory that Chekhov referred to as "vaudeville".