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

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

All men have their foibles, and Sindhia's was histrionism, which imposed on no one.

From Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan by Keene, H. G. (Henry George)

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)

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