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

A bit of unequalled histrionism followed in which Isabelle entered as Lucy, with little Nancy Holt as her child.

From The Cricket by Williams, J. Scott (John Scott)

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

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

From A Speckled Bird by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans

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)