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

There should be moderation even in the shrinking from theatricality.

There was in him more than a touch of theatricality, and as he stood back from this little arrangement to study its effect, he was charmed with his own fancy.

'It gives me a perfect hunger for fine clothes, and jewels, and masqueradesand "fêtes de nuit"and every sort of theatricality and expense!