Histrionics Definition

hĭstrē-ŏnĭks
noun
Theatrical arts or performances.
American Heritage
Theatricals; dramatics.
Webster's New World
An artificial or affected manner, display of emotion, etc.; melodramatics.
Webster's New World
Exaggerated emotional behavior calculated for effect.
American Heritage
A composite spring, used especially in automotive suspensions, consisting of several layers of flexible metallic strips joined to act as a single unit.
American Heritage
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Histrionics Sentence Examples

  • He's such an effective player, he doesn't need the histrionics.

  • Histrionics are not his style, he drinks tea, chairs meetings, takes things under advisement and commands his troops to 'make it so'.

  • For a film with a demon bunny in it, Kelly manages to almost completely avoid any histrionics.

  • Suffice to say that these were all the constituents we needed for a night of raucous binge drinking and eye-popping vocal histrionics.

  • Within this new context, Dave's guitar histrionics work well adding considerable flavor to the original compositions.

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