| 单词 | good theatre |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgood theatre e. Without article or plural (chiefly predicatively). With a descriptive adjective: theatrical or dramatic entertainment (of a specified quality); esp. in good theatre (see good adj. 1c); also used of an action or work of art that has the quality of (good, etc.) drama or theatrical technique; hence figurative, dramatic effect or sensation, spectacle, outward show without serious inward intent. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > spectacular, sensational, or dramatic display > [noun] stage-work1649 scenery1726 theatricalness1727 dramatizing1808 show1822 theatricality1837 pyrotechny1845 theatricalism1854 sensational1861 sensationalism1862 sensationism1862 theatricism1872 theatricalization1875 dramaticism1878 dramatism1880 spectacularity1883 spectacularism1888 theatre1926 son et lumière1968 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > [noun] > theatrical entertainment theatry1513 theatre1926 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > [noun] > theatrical quality staginess1864 theatre1926 1926 C. Morley Good Theatre 216 Don't be sore on them laughs, brother. Every one o' them screams is a meal ticket. That's what I call good theayter. 1927 Sunday Times 27 Feb. 6/4 ‘The Letter’ is superb theatre throughout. 1934 Sun (Baltimore) 1 June 12/1 Superb tennis and ‘good theater’ have never been so generously mixed in the performance of any other player. 1939 A. Thirkell Before Lunch iv. 96 It would have been rather too much theatre to awaken heroine with soft music, don't you think? 1948 A. J. P. Taylor Habsburg Monarchy i. 12 Austrian Baroque civilisation..was grandiose, full of superficial life, yet sterile within: it was theatre, not reality. 1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 89 (advt.) They bring real ‘theater’ to a sales presentation. 1955 W. W. Denlinger Compl. Boston ii. 9 Some of the competition exercises are almost useless; some I consider pure ‘theatre’ and others are practical. 1958 Listener 2 Oct. 499/2 You have to admit that the Old City is good theatre. 1965 Listener 21 Oct. 630/2 Standing spotlit at the end of a great black-draped room all by itself, it [sc. a piece of sculpture]..was above all dramatic. It was, in its way, even great theatre. 1975 J. O'Faolain Women in Wall xii. 211 She encourages zeal and all she gets is theatre... This sort of thing was new to the convent. < as lemmas |
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