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
Although this character, in a sense, dominates Moussorgsky's great opera, there is little opportunity for the display of histrionism which Boris presents to the singing actor.
From Interpreters by Carl Van Vechten
And we can instance scene upon scene where the self-evident padding can either furnish an excuse for agile histrionism, or become merely tiresome in its iteration161.
From The Dramatic Values in Plautus by Wilton Wallace Blancké
It had its faults, of course—floridness, pomposity, too much histrionism.
From Yet Again by Sir Max Beerbohm
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 Thomas Moore
