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

Although this character, in a sense, dominates Moussorgsky's great opera, there is little opportunity for the display of histrionism which Boris presents to the singing actor.

From Interpreters by Van Vechten, Carl

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

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