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  • The Eat Well Guide is from the folks who did the "meatrix" movie (s), which means I have mixed feelings about it - the movies are histronic and a bit misleading, but ... it's not like there needs to be a monopoly on media messages about organic cruelty-free meat farms.

    Matter-of-fact decency speedyima 2007

  • Obviously, she was not histronic - she was in pain, probably had peritonitis and in severe pain, and died.

    Death by vomiting on ER Floor; Murder Weapon: Denial of Universal Health Insurance 2007

  • Far be it for me, or anyone to eclipse or upstage the vice president's histronic claim that theHouse Dems are sending a message to "terrorists," but, hey, somebody needs to remind Mr. Cheney that there were no "terrorists" in Iraq until he and his homeboyschose to invade, andtopple a formerly sovereign state.

    How's This for a Marriage? 2007

  • A little histronic and rushed, as Valenti could often be.

    The WELL: Me And My Uncle 2007

  • Obvioulsy she was not treated correctly the first two times she came in ... again, not histronic but in distress!

    Death by vomiting on ER Floor; Murder Weapon: Denial of Universal Health Insurance 2007

  • The duke said, leave him alone for that; said he had played a deef and dumb person on the histronic boards.

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2003

  • Well I took this disorder test I found, and it said I was high in being paranoid, histronic (attention seeker) dependant, and obsessive compulsive.

    jenna-bear Diary Entry jenna-bear 2002

  • All through July and August Mrs. Jim Harkey seemed to renew her endeavors to keep the sisters apart; she still carried spiteful tales to and fro, amplifying them with an irresistible histronic tendency.

    Other Main-Travelled Roads Hamlin Garland 1900

  • It was like somethin 'you read about in them old histronic days, or somethin' happenin 'up on the moon, or on that plantation of Mars.

    Dawn 1894

  • She was standing before a mirror, dabbing her neck with a powder-puff -- histronic to the last; she was showing me how she had to resort to this to cover up the marks of my assault.

    Branded Francis Lynde 1893

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