With this theatric note, to serve as a snapper to our long column of gossip, we beg to yield place to that very coy lady--the Bride of Landeck.
The stress of that inferno had not interfered with the theatric pose of head and shoulders--the grace and effect of gesture that was conveyed in the two hands wielding two smoking pistols.
On her face had been no theatric expression which would have warranted a close-up.
Likewise, on a larger scale, the layman habitually fails to distinguish between a mere theatric entertainment and a genuine drama.
A fundamental and necessary relation has always existed between theatre-building and theatric art.
To return to our comparison, a genuine drama is carved out of marble, and incorporates, consciously or not, the Intention of Permanence; whereas a mere theatric entertainment may be likened to a group of figures sculptured in the sand.
But a theatric entertainment may present merely a deftly fabricated struggle between puppets, wherein the art of the actor is given momentary exercise.
An occasion is remembered in theatric circles when, at the tensest moment in the first-night presentation of a play, the leading actress, entering down a stairway, tripped and fell sprawling.
They gather up a haphazard handful of theatric situations and try to string them together into a story; they congregate an ill-assorted company of characters and try to achieve a play by letting them talk to each other.
To any one who has thoroughly considered the conditions governing theatric art, it should be evident a priori that pleasant plays are better suited for service in the theatre than unpleasant plays.
In expressing this, he has added to the permanent recorded knowledge of humanity; and he has thereby lifted his plays above the level of theatric journalism to the level of true dramatic literature.
I should be truly ashamed of finding in myself that superficial, theatric sense of painted distress, whilst I could exult over it in real life.
You must hear me," he continues, with theatric effect.
He looked askance at the young fellow, and, suppressing a smile, extended his hand after a pompous theatric fashion and exclaimed, "I thank you for those words.
Our two theatric amateurs, who had from the first been present, now increased the pleasure of the meeting.
In these solitary hills, among these impenetrable forests, has theatric art sought out a place, and built herself a temple?
By need compell'd to prostitute his art, The varied actor flies from part to part; And--strange disgrace to all theatric pride!
But I say, this theatricexit was tolerably well put upon the stage, nevertheless there is a rent in the curtain which lets in the light of reality upon the corpse.
Her small, pallid face looked ghostly in so theatric a costume, but her beautiful eyes shone with an almost unearthly fire.
The surety of touch, the easy mastery of theatric effects, the violent contrasts, and the sparkling dialogue transformed Sudermann's cometary career into a fixed star of the first magnitude.
Even the surprising of the lovers by the sleepless husband has nothing theatricin it.
His critics forgot that Ibsen was a skilled deviser of theatric effects, and such an unconventional exit was not without its artistic values.
The opportunity for theatric climax is rare in La Gioconda; but when it does come the effect is strong.
Which was plainly owning, they all three had a hand in mixing the ingredients for this theatric pudding.
We were amazed to find ourselves yielding to such a spell; there was no splendor and no theatric illusion.
I have not thought often ontheatric performances, and of late not at all.
I have never heard any thing to give me suspicions of his behaving unhandsomely; and as you indulge my zeal and age a liberty of speaking like a friend, I would beg you to suppress your sense of the too great prerogatives of theatric monarchs.
This, however, would by good luck be perfectly possible too--without a sacrifice of truth; and I should doubtless even be able to make my theatric case as important as I might desire it.
All that he could do by countenance and patronage to encourage a debauching and degrading style of theatric entertainment, he has done.
In his theatric way he used to tell his intimates that he was haunted by all the Furies.
He announced, indeed, that he was overwhelmed with grief, and he indulged in a certain amount of hysterical and theatric lamentation, which interfered in no way with his follies or his appetites.
If in the deaths of some of the philosophic republicans of that day we see the theatric pomposity of Stoicism, in that of Petronius we see the callous levity of the infidel voluptuary.
Although his work has been belittled because he has chosen exceptional and theatric happenings, yet his real strength came from his contact with Western life.
Both writers on the whole may be said to have lowered the standards of American literature, since both worked in the surface of life with theatric intent and always without moral background, O.
It would introduce too long discussion, were I to enter on the much-agitated question concerning the advantages and disadvantages of masks in theatric representations.
Nearly a third part of Dubos' once celebrated work on Poetry and Painting, is occupied with thetheatric declamation of the Roman actors.
Art, and art only, can make archaeology beautiful; and the theatric art can use it most directly and most vividly, for it can combine in one exquisite presentation the illusion of actual life with the wonder of the unreal world.
There were some critics who complained of thetheatric quality of his art, but all conceded the individuality and the boldness of his new conceptions.
He saw his father with critical eyes, with an unhealthy knowledge beyond the weight of his years, and this hidden critical spectatorship made life seem to him like some whirling theatric danse macabre of riotous emotions and vibrant colors.
Fortunately the danger of a too theatric success was averted by an immediate conflict among the super-critics.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "theatric" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
