histrionic

• I have already said that I had made up my mind in my earliest days to go to the Bar or on the Stage, and that love for the histrionic art (sometimes called the footlights) never left me. —  The Reminiscences Of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton)
• While AC's post was a little over the top and histrionic, my guess is that the current health care situation didn't come about because of bush. —  Think Progress
• I thought the performances were histrionic, and the disjointed story about the rise of a California oil tycoon could have been told in far less than (an interminable) 2 hours and 40 minutes. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
• [21 Robert Wilson must have been passé as an actor in 1589, if indeed he was then living, while Strange's company was composed of younger and rising men, all recently selected for their histrionic abilities from several companies, amongst which, it appears evident, the Queen's company was not then included, though it is likely that in 1591 some Queen's men joined Strange's company. —  Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592
• Six or seven members of the club abruptly discovered in themselves an unsuspected latent passion for the histrionic art. —  Mademoiselle Olympe Zabriski

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