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Shell fire was the theatricalism of the struggle, the roar of guns its thunder; but night or day the sound of the staccato of that little arch devil of killing, the machine gun, coming from the Ridge seemed as true an expression of what was always going on there as a rattlesnake's rattle is of its character.
At the same time, I am far from suggesting that the reaction against the traditional "dramatic" is a wholly mistaken movement. It is a valuable corrective of conventional theatricalism; and it has, at some points, positively enlarged the domain of dramatic art. Any movement is good which helps to free art from the tyranny of a code of rules and definitions.
They talk of "nose dives" and "crashers," which mean the way an enemy's plane was brought down, and although they have no pose or theatricalism the consciousness of belonging to the wonder corps of modern war is not lacking. One returns from a flight and finds that a three-inch anti-aircraft gun-shell has gone through the body of his plane. "So that was it! Hardly felt it!" he said.
And how could I blame you two for getting crazy about each other? I wouldn't spoil it for worlds. I want to help it on." "Don't you love him really?" cried Constance, face and voice full of the most thrilling theatricalism. "I'm very fond of him," replied Susan. "We're old, old friends. But as to love I'm where you'll be a few months from now." Miss Francklyn dried her eyes.
Her absurd theatricalism was gone; she was a natural, unaffected young woman. "I wish I could do something to help," wearily continued Bob, but Adoree shook her head so violently that the barbaric beaded festoon beneath her chin clicked and rattled. "She knows you're close by; that's enough.
It is replete with Roubiliac's established ecstatic super-elegant manner; with a strong tinge of theatricalism, possibly added by Garrick, for whose temple at Hampton the statue was undertaken; who attitudinized in aid, as he imagined, of the sculptor's labours, with a cry of 'Behold the swan of Avon! and who, it must be said, at all times entertained a very 'footlight' view of the poet.
Shorn of so much of the theatricalism of ordinary stage performances, there was reality and charm about this that warmed the spectators into frequent bursts of spontaneous enthusiasm which were as draughts of elixir to the players. Those who were playing creditably played well; those who were playing well excelled themselves, and Patsy outplayed them all.
The parody of the Lord's Supper is deplorable: we have already heard enough of the music in the prelude without having to go through it again. Klingsor's magic music is mere theatricalism; about Kundry's account of Parsifal's mother I remain in some doubt: it is certainly beautiful, but to those of us who know the corresponding scene in Siegfried it is rather beggarly.
"What can I do for you?" he inquired in a tone frigidly polite, yet not devoid of an anxious note. They regarded each other a moment. "I hardly know how to begin," she said, lowering her eyes. He did not credit her hesitancy. It was a deceit, he felt, a bit of theatricalism, the simulated modesty of a woman of experience.
Beneath her brows, heavy and thick for a woman's, her eyes flitted back to the man. With the careful affectation of doing nothing at all, a theatricalism that she detected instantly, but for which she could guess no reason, he was cutting away at the damp, close-gnawed seed of the peach, trying apparently to fashion some little trinket a toy basket, possibly from it.
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