histrionism
Example Sentences
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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
A bit of unequalled histrionism followed in which Isabelle entered as Lucy, with little Nancy Holt as her child.
From The Cricket by J. Scott (John Scott) Williams
The pompous histrionism of Monk, he knew, was merely a shell for the cold, calculating, undeviating selfishness that too frequently comes with advancing years.
From Alias the Lone Wolf by Louis Joseph Vance
Minnie felt something like repulsion, and the sort of shame which an honest and proud nature feels at any suspicion of histrionism in one whom it has hitherto respected.
From A Charming Fellow, Volume I (of 3) by Frances Eleanor Trollope
All men have their foibles, and Sindhia's was histrionism, which imposed on no one.
From Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan by H. G. (Henry George) Keene
