What's the difference between exaggerated and theatrical?

Exaggerated


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Exaggerate
  • (a.) Enlarged beyond bounds or the truth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was concluded that B. pertussis infection-induced hypoglycaemia was secondary to hyperinsulinaemia, possibly caused by an exaggerated insulin secretory response to food intake.
  • (2) Conclusion 1 says that "deliberate attempts were made to frustrate these interviews" – which appears to be an exaggeration.
  • (3) The first is that the supposed exaggerated winter birthrate among process schizophrenics actually represents a reduction in spring-fall births caused by prenatal exposure to infectious diseases during the preceding winter--i.e., a high prenatal death rate in process preschizophrenic fetuses.
  • (4) In short, it says the IPCC exaggerates the warming effect of CO2.
  • (5) The government argued these reports were exaggerated.
  • (6) The exaggerated buckles used do not allow these monkeys to serve as a clinical model and great caution is stressed in making clinical extrapolations.
  • (7) These initial reflex responses were exaggerated in the spastics as compared with the normals.
  • (8) We interpret this exaggerated positive attitude as an attempt to overcome inner fears, doubts and ambivalences.
  • (9) Historically, what made SNL’s campaign coverage so necessary was its ability to highlight the subtle absurdities of the election and exaggerate the ridiculous.
  • (10) Most patients with abnormal OGTT's fell into the latter group, but some had glucose intolerance without either an exaggerated insulin response or insulin resistance.
  • (11) Exaggerations of this presumed daily incremental rhythm lead to the formation of the more major incremental lines which can also be visualized by scanning electron microscopy.
  • (12) An exaggerated insulin response to oral glucose was associated with reactive hypoglycemia in the post-gastrectomy syndrome, in normal-weight patients with chemical diabetes and 44% of the patients with the isolated syndrome.
  • (13) Both the absence of exaggerated splay in patients with reduction of glomerular filtration rate by as much as 85%, and the emergence of exaggerated splay in patients with more marked reduction of GFR, require explanation.
  • (14) In the case of PCP, however exaggerated the story, a real danger does exist.
  • (15) R6-PKC3 cells also show an exaggerated response to very low concentrations of serum, when compared to R6-C1 control cells.
  • (16) It was abnormal in its resistance to habituation and in its exaggerated motor response.
  • (17) This increase is exaggerated when hematocrit levels are increased and the cells are hypochromic and microcytic.
  • (18) These changes were of equal magnitude and in some cases tended to be exaggerated during the second and third matches.
  • (19) A more objective consideration relates to the observed late, progressive deleterious influences of hyperfiltration imposed upon the reduced population of surviving nephrons (3); would this process been exaggerated by improved perfusion?
  • (20) The prose rhythm and colloquial diction here work against exaggeration, but allow for humour.

Theatrical


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a theater, or to the scenic representations; resembling the manner of dramatic performers; histrionic; hence, artificial; as, theatrical performances; theatrical gestures.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At a theatrical device, it's a remarkable idea that a character will break the fourth wall.
  • (2) Years ahead of its time, it saw each song presented theatrically, the musicians concealed in the wings (although Bowie said that they kept creeping on to the stage, literally unable to resist the spotlight) and with Bowie performing on a cherry-picker and on a giant hand, both of which kept breaking down.
  • (3) "We are trying to create a theatrical version of The Arabian Nights which will do justice to the scale, depth and richness of the stories."
  • (4) Me and Taika would always do theatrical stuff, running around, miming, putting on voices.
  • (5) Dexter was a consummate theatrical craftsman and Lindsay was, in one form, a sort of poetic director.
  • (6) In 1997, the Globe was hardly the first space to challenge theatrical orthodoxy, but it was the first to return the event so wholeheartedly to the audience, and the first to do so in a way that felt so essentially English.
  • (7) Despite his Catholic upbringing, Clare lost his religious belief as a young man, saying he could not believe in a god that could cause famine, genocide and air crashes, although he admitted to missing the theatricality of the Catholic church.
  • (8) If someone’s able to keep such a stony-faced expression, it’s either high theatrics or they have no sympathy,” she added.
  • (9) Everyone was hooked to the drama and theatricality of it all.
  • (10) Young companies have woken up to the fact that puppetry isn't just a way of putting an extra actor on stage without paying food and accommodation costs, but a brilliant theatrical tool.
  • (11) Of all the senior clergy of the Church of England, she is arguably the least theatrical.
  • (12) Sharknado, a satirical disaster film featuring man-eating sharks let loose on Los Angeles by a freak cyclone, premiered on SyFy in 2013 and became a cult hit, gaining some traction later as a theatrical release.
  • (13) In fact, Guinness was an actor for a new theatrical style, subtle and undecorated.
  • (14) The costumes look remarkably grand for home theatricals, the jewellery is startlingly convincing, and the band evidently comprises moonlighting members of the Royal Horse Guards.
  • (15) His recognition of the theatrical value of its decay saved it from destruction.
  • (16) Theatrically backdropped by conical Great Sugarloaf mountain, the estate is landscaped with terraces, lakes and ponds, and also embraces the country's highest waterfall.
  • (17) And, although there are a few coups de théâtre (at one point the sky rains white balloons), audiences may be split over whether Van Hove has found a potent enough theatrical equivalent to Antonioni's visual poetry.
  • (18) When he finally deigned to sit down formally, it was in typically theatrical fashion: after midnight, on a big bed in a five-star suite, the Monte Carlo casino winking beneath our balcony, the ocean sighing behind us.
  • (19) The idea of the vampire as a silver-tongued aristocrat, like Count Dracula, is mirrored in Irving's thespian mannerisms, and his fascination with theatrical villains.
  • (20) She returned here and auditioned for Bernard Delfont , the huge theatrical group – it was a cattle market in those days.