She did not like Mr. Dainopoulos personally because he saw through her chief weakness, which was a species of theatricality.
"Command"
William McFee
Esther had none of Evanthia's untutored theatricality.
"Command"
William McFee
theatricality before everything else in this world, in any art, achieves wide and popular success, the kind of success that Turner achieves in the pictures for which the English public admire him.
"George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians"
T. Martin Wood