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

No amount of ready histrionism was sufficient to prevent a very meaning, though momentary, sneer from passing over the beautiful face of the singer as Ludovico spoke thus.

From A Siren by Trollope, Thomas Adolphus

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

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