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

The trained nurse, who had rushed down-stairs and into the garden, now reached her side and drastically checked Genevieve Maud's histrionism by spreading a spacious palm over the wide little mouth.

From Many Kingdoms by Jordan, Elizabeth Garver

It had its faults, of course—floridness, pomposity, too much histrionism.

From Yet Again by Beerbohm, Max, Sir

And with the histrionism of strong emotion she pointed to a corner of the kitchen.

From Lay Morals by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Does not the change consist rather in the outer form and in the ideas expounded than in the spirit of the histrionism and mimicry?

From The Dramatic Values in Plautus by Blancké, Wilton Wallace