histrionism
Example Sentences
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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
And with the histrionism of strong emotion she pointed to a corner of the kitchen.
From Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson
All men have their foibles, and Sindhia's was histrionism, which imposed on no one.
From Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan by H. G. (Henry George) Keene
Judged from the standard of European histrionism, the plot is weak from the sameness and repetition of the theme.
From The Philippine Islands by John Foreman
And we can instance scene upon scene where the self-evident padding can either furnish an excuse for agile histrionism, or become merely tiresome in its iteration161.
From The Dramatic Values in Plautus by Wilton Wallace Blancké
