释义 |
ˈphysicalize, v. [f. physical a. + -ize.] trans. To express or represent by physical means, spec. in the theatre, to represent (an idea) in physical terms, as the movements of the body of an actor. So physicaliˈzation, the representation of an idea by physical means.
1947E. Kazan in Cole & Chinoy Directing Play (1953) 297 An effort to put poetic names on scenes to edge me into stylizations and physicalizations. Try to keep each scene in terms of Blanche. Ibid. 308 Stanley..is completely self-absorbed to the point of fascination. To physicalize this: he has a most annoying way of being preoccupied—or of busying himself with something else while people are talking with him. 1972Village Voice (N.Y.) 1 June 54/4 Its publicized aim: ‘to explore various means of physicalization to test the theory that theatre should be a hieroglyphic of speaking icons’. 1977Rolling Stone 7 Apr. 14/3 Lily is particularly taken with Rick at the moment, partly because when she did him on the ‘friends of Lily Tomlin’ videotape, when she ‘physicalized’ him by wearing a moustache, sideburns and leather jacket, strutting and tugging at his/her crotch, hardly anyone recognized that the stud was her. |