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

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

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)

And with the histrionism of strong emotion she pointed to a corner of the kitchen.

From Lay Morals by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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