Sentence examples for theatrical turn from inspiring English sources

At regular intervals the hearing took a theatrical turn.

There is a woman for whom pulling out lipstick in public is a theatrical turn.

Writing yesterday, Michael Billington noted the theatrical turn to the past; partly this might be explained by the long retreat from politics in the arts as a whole.

His theatrical turn on Berlin's greatest stage stated a great moral truth, the way the best theater does, and proved the accuracy of Mr. Gorbachev's third concept, uskorenie — acceleration.

The amateur pantomime that is England's 2010 World Cup campaign took another theatrical turn on Monday, perhaps more entertaining in its way than the mercy flight of WAGs winging its way to South Africa in defiance of Coach Fabio Capello's ban on wives and girlfriends.

The A.V. Club's Nathan Rabin credited RZA's conceptualization of the "rich, bloody, dense universe he created down to the most insignificant details", and praised RZA's "powerful inner calm" and Crowe's "defiantly theatrical turn".

Mr. Buatta, who always had an eye for the theatrical, turned the opening night party into the social event of the winter calendar.

Meanwhile, Sheridan Smith – fresh from critical acclaim for a run of theatrical turns – will take on the title role in Hedda Gabler at London's Old Vic.

Harold Pinter wrote The Dumb Waiter in 1957, a year after Look Back in Anger was first staged: it now appears infinitely more prescient than Osborne's supposed theatrical turning point.

There was always a kind of exaggeration to the way Goode played his football; the puffing of the chest and spread of the arms to make himself appear even bigger than he was as he approached the contest or roamed free space; the theatrical turning circle as he clasped the ball in one hand; the boyish hopping on the spot as he unloaded high fives on team-mates and revved himself up.

A scholar of "vintage telly", Hodgson can discourse at persuasive length about the superiority of British theatrical-turned-TV thesps such as Julian Glover and Jan Francis over American actors like Harrison Ford.