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The filing also accused the union of making “histrionical demands that the mediation process wrap up quickly.”

Samuel Shellabarger is a master of the histrionical romance.

The same Bottom, who seems bred in a tiring-room, has another histrionical passion.

She was accustomed to a certain domineering authority in his language, rendered all the more difficult to endure by the sarcasm with which he sometimes embittered his words, as though he had dipped them in gall before pronouncing them,—but this apparent abandonment of reserve, this almost touching assumption of candour, were phases of his histrionical ability which he had never till now displayed in her presence.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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