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He would wish to know what it was supposed to be, like Nash's histrionics.

Mary continued without giving much attention to these histrionics.

At such times she astonished him by taking his most solemn histrionics with flippant incredulity, and even burlesquing them.

He saw the humour of the comedy he was acting, and dispassionately approved himself, because he did not give way to histrionics.

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Are you about to turn actor, and do you trust to her for instruction in histrionics?

It was a feint, she thought, histrionics for the gallery, perhaps for her.

THE MONSTEREDGAR SALTUS

In Oratorio we have the same thing without the scenery and the histrionics.

It is an incident like this which proves that histrionics is no theatrical monopoly.

Likewise, Tartarin and the people of Tarascon were deceived by their own histrionics.

At the public schools of Eton and Westminster histrionics was included amongst the subjects taught.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985