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

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 Blancké, Wilton Wallace

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 Jordan, Elizabeth Garver

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

It had its faults, of course—floridness, pomposity, too much histrionism.

From Yet Again by Beerbohm, Max, Sir