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

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)

Beyond this I cannot consent to any publication, or to the abuse of any publication of mine to the purposes of histrionism.

From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 With His Letters and Journals by Moore, Thomas

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

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

From Lay Morals by Stevenson, Robert Louis