lipservice

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lipservice (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of lip service
    • 1996, J. L. Styan, The English Stage, →ISBN, pages xiii–xiv:
      The present inquiry therefore aims to pay more than lipservice to the notion of drama as performance, and to make more than a gesture towards the idea of theatre as a composite art, one that mixes music and mime, dance and song, painting and design, poetry and narrative, and much else. It is precation and response, and seeks out evidence of the manipulation of the audience and its powers of perception.