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Emotion performed loudly enough to outrun the need to feel it.
means Exaggerated, stagey behavior used to create a dramatic effect rather than express genuine feeling.
from Traces back through theatrical to Greek theatron, 'a place for viewing' — built from theasthai, 'to behold.' A theater was literally a seeing-place, built for an audience; theatrics keeps that bargain alive, performing feeling for witnesses rather than living it in private.
- origin
- from greek theatron, a seeing place
- tell
- the sigh always arrives before the point
- workplace use
- replaces evidence with volume
- irony
- convinces no one who isn't already convinced