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

I happen'd to see what has been reckon'd by experts one of the most marvellous pieces of histrionism ever known.

From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Whitman, Walt

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)

The pompous histrionism of Monk, he knew, was merely a shell for the cold, calculating, undeviating selfishness that too frequently comes with advancing years.

From Alias the Lone Wolf by Vance, Louis Joseph