histrionism

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But she adds: "Perhaps that wasn't, in my then stage of development, quite so much a feat of pure histrionism as I complacently considered it."

From Time Magazine Archive

Beyond this I cannot consent to any publication, or to the abuse of any publication of mine to the purposes of histrionism.

From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 With His Letters and Journals by Moore, Thomas

No amount of ready histrionism was sufficient to prevent a very meaning, though momentary, sneer from passing over the beautiful face of the singer as Ludovico spoke thus.

From A Siren by Trollope, Thomas Adolphus

All the sympathy which the Anglo-Saxon temperament withholds from the histrionism of Lebrun is instinctively accorded to his gentle and graceful contemporary, who has been called—faute de mieux, of course—the French Raphael.

From French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture by Brownell, W. C. (William Crary)

A bit of unequalled histrionism followed in which Isabelle entered as Lucy, with little Nancy Holt as her child.

From The Cricket by Williams, J. Scott (John Scott)