histrionics
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Also elusive is the source of Kayleen’s growing emotional distress, which Ms. Young conveys with an admirable absence of histrionics.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025
But Zhao and O’Farrell’s screenplay consistently reverts to histrionics and outsized displays of emotion, never once burrowing into how either William or Agnes really feels.
From Salon • Nov. 30, 2025
Winger Vinicius showed his frustration with his coach publicly during the Clasico, substituted and storming off in a fit of histrionics.
From Barron's • Nov. 3, 2025
Horschel's histrionics were straight out of the LIV playbook but did not seem out of place once TGL reached its play-off stage.
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2025
Yet Grover drove through the whole grand catastrophe undistracted, as though the torching of a place simply did not matter to him, or as though it were no more than some histrionics he’d ordered up.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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