self-dramatizing

She's a self-dramatizing chatterbox with a fondness for make-up and perfume; he's a fussy neurotic who can't stand artificial fragrances.

decalage horaire - French Word-A-Day 2010

She's a self-dramatizing chatterbox with a fondness for make-up and perfume; he's a fussy neurotic who can't stand artificial fragrances.

French Word-A-Day: 2010

Edgar is unsparing in its portrait of Hoover as a ruthless, self-dramatizing and sometimes delusional zealot—his loathing of Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy, among others, is given special prominence—as well as a patriot, by his own lights, and a proponent of modern criminal science.

'J. Edgar': Hoover's Life, in a Dramatic Vacuum Joe Morgenstern 2011

Both performances are superb, and, through the son's self-questioning and the father's self-dramatizing, beautifully complementary.

Surprise: A Newly Exhilarating 'X-Men' Joe Morgenstern 2011

When Lindsay Waters asserts that Dreiser's portrayal of Carrie Meeber allows us to "experience ourselves as vain and frail and ambitious," he's actually describing a response to the novel that constricts the literary experience, that reduces it to an opportunity for vicarious self-dramatizing.

Literary Study 2009

And he had a self-dramatizing manner that was unusual, even for a Third World dictator.

Time to stand up to Libya's madman 2011

She had affairs with both its leader, Filippo Marinetti, and his then-disciple Giovanni Papini; she clearly had a weakness for self-dramatizing artists, for all her ridicule of them.

The First Lady Of Futurism Helen Carr 2011

She's a self-dramatizing chatterbox with a fondness for make-up and perfume; he's a fussy neurotic who can't stand artificial fragrances.

Voyager 2010

In the spirit of the self-dramatizing American gangsters Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, Mesrine saw himself as a mythic figure the French public concurred and Mr. Cassel succeeds in the tricky task of elevating the myth while factoring in its squalid reality.

An 'American' in Italy, and in Existential Pain 2010

Kate Moses grew up with a glamorous, self-dramatizing mother who instructed her children to refer to her as the babysitter.

He Ate, She Ate 2010