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

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

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

From Yet Again by Beerbohm, Max, Sir

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

Minnie felt something like repulsion, and the sort of shame which an honest and proud nature feels at any suspicion of histrionism in one whom it has hitherto respected.

From A Charming Fellow, Volume I (of 3) by Trollope, Frances Eleanor