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

My dear, histrionism is not becoming to you—especially without chiton, diplo�dion, and fillets.

From A Speckled Bird by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans

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 Trollope, Frances Eleanor

Judged from the standard of European histrionism, the plot is weak from the sameness and repetition of the theme.

From The Philippine Islands by Foreman, John