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

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

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

All men have their foibles, and Sindhia's was histrionism, which imposed on no one.

From Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan by Keene, H. G. (Henry George)

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