Sentence examples for histrionic approach from inspiring English sources

For Zadek it was a way of counteracting the more stylised, histrionic approach he found in the Federal Republic.

The neo-soul movement, which enshrines the sounds and production values of 1970's black pop, has also revived that era's less histrionic approach to singing.

Thus the intimate "Passage" (the earliest Kudelka work still performed) and the large-scale "Heart of the Matter" (his most recent achievement) are alike in their sense of narrative suggestion: their ability to evoke dramatic situations, character relationships and points-of-view through a compositional rather than histrionic approach.

This time around, that album's histrionic, almost operatic approach has been replaced by a stripped-down country-tinged sound; guests include Gillian Welch and Peter Buck.

Seldom seen without his trademark floppy hat and sunglasses - they have prescription lenses - his public image is a man of few words, fewer gestures and nothing approaching histrionics.

As adapted by the playwright Patrick Marber ("After Miss Julie and Don Juanan in Soho" at the Donmar), Pinero's original script has been amended to emphasize a generational conflict between old-school, floridly histrionic and newer, more naturalistic approaches to acting.

If you listen to Waters's 1933 recording of "Stormy Weather" what you hear is a timeless approach: unaffected, emotional but not histrionic, and devoid of the grandstanding that often poses as dramatic revelation.

Mr. Sykes is at times clinical in his approach, and not inclined to board-room histrionics.

We are not coming to engage in any histrionic gesture.

A senior officer in the Metropolitan police is today accused of adopting a "cavalier" approach to the power of arrest and of indulging in "histrionic gestures" during the "loans for peerages" investigation in Tony Blair's final year in office.

These disorders are severely disabling, and the new approach proposes to phase out five of the disorders — dependent, histrionic, schizoid and paranoid, in addition to narcissistic, the least common — in favor of choosing from a list of personality traits that best describe a particular patient.