histrionism

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

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 Elizabeth Garver Jordan

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

From Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson

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 Thomas Adolphus Trollope

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 Frances Eleanor Trollope