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

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

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

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)