That play was a bit too histrionic for my tastes. From LearnThat.org.
histrionic gestures. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Irrfan we know as a histrionic powerhouse, but here he's playing an action hero. From Wordnik.com. [rediff.com] Reference
Police indulged in 'histrionic gestures' during investigation of loans-for-peerages allegations, says former aide to Tony Blair. From Wordnik.com. [Jonathan Powell accuses John Yates of 'cavalier' approach over Met inquiry] Reference
The word histrionic is derived through the Latin from an Etruscan word which means "to leap" and was originally applied to dancers. From Wordnik.com. [Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"] Reference
A writer who refers to a legislator that has been appointed to an Obama committee as a flaming liberal calling me histrionic is hilarious. From Wordnik.com. [Democratic State Sen. Darlene Fairley Will Not Seek Reelection « PubliCola] Reference
Here, I did think Mr. Comey's testimony was "histrionic" -- that is, "of a theatrical quality.". From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
As to your calling his performance as "histrionic", I can't agree. From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
It was the kind of histrionic gesture which appealed to dear Maggie. From Wordnik.com. [She Closed Her Eyes] Reference
This is the most directly and curiously imitative among the -- shall we call them -- 'histrionic' types of Veronica. From Wordnik.com. [Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers] Reference
Spirit, and exhibited real histrionic ability in the role. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Fourth Year at Overton College] Reference
But without question the high histrionic art of the Chinese, Javanese. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs] Reference
We have never seen any thing in histrionic excellence to surpass, few to equal it. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810] Reference
While most politicians are needy and histrionic, Bloomberg is self-possessed and cool. From Wordnik.com. [Bloomberg's Knightly Ambitions] Reference
Chinese, the Greeks and Romans, histrionic representation was cultivated with assiduity. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference
Archie B. told him the story with all the quaint histrionic talent of his exuberant nature. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
New York, but that she disappeared utterly in the final conflagration of that histrionic shrine. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866] Reference
Such politics requires histrionic sincerity, complete with tears, in the expression of compassion. From Wordnik.com. [Presidential Moisture] Reference
The Senate was created to balance out the more histrionic, bipolar, and less forgiving lower House. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Jim Taylor: When Did the Senate Turn into Pre-school?] Reference
The beauty, the singing, and the histrionic powers of the principal actress had been everywhere extolled. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Let your show dish be well hashed and don't, above all things, neglect the histrionic pepper and mustard. From Wordnik.com. [A Pirate of Parts] Reference
The Bodleian has entertained Mark Twain, Joseph Jefferson, and other literary and histrionic celebrities. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
That resulted in histrionic doings with a revolver, a suicide threat -- in other words, a Picasso scenario. From Wordnik.com. [Friendship And Rivalry] Reference
And there is the female impersonator with deeply roughed cheeks, who is the pride and flower of histrionic art. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs] Reference
Here, when Hodgkinson, and Hallam, and Cooper, and Cooke were at the zenith of their histrionic career in the Park. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference
Perrault had assisted Vaura in the getting up of theatricals, she having developed such excellent histrionic powers. From Wordnik.com. [A Heart-Song of To-day] Reference
Any histrionic reputation that he may have made has been the work of understudies while the principal was busy with his. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 25, 1914] Reference
Nay, unimportant as were some parts in themselves, they were quite enough for the histrionic talent of some of our friends. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference
Then, there were charades and tableaux parties; while a few -- more ambitious of histrionic fame -- got up private theatricals. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
It is the only method available for the dramatist, who, however, can make it still more effective through histrionic portrayal. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
She was, indeed, the queen of tragedy, and delighted the histrionic world of New York by her remarkable rendering of the plays of. From Wordnik.com. [As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century] Reference
He generally gets close to me in these displays of musical and histrionic talent Once he offered to magnetize me in the manner of. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866] Reference
MANGLES, was so kind as to say that such an instance of the histrionic flux in a child of FRITZ'S years, was utterly unparalleled. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870] Reference
It cannot be said that the taste or culture of the nation is indifferent to histrionic excellence, when absolute excellence is found. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860] Reference
She was far too histrionic, too satisfied with her own cleverness and even more self-obsessed than the average early 20th-century don. From Wordnik.com. [My hero: Jane Ellen Harrison] Reference
The villain is the Internet -- or rather, all of our most histrionic fears about the Internet, come to life in grainy, hand-held footage. From Wordnik.com. [Ariel and Nev Schulman and Henry Joost cast the Net in ominous 'Catfish' role] Reference
The Austens seem to have been possessed of considerable histrionic talent, and they were decidedly ambitious in the plays they undertook. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
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