Sentence examples for histrionic display from inspiring English sources

Their arguments are fierce, for no fewer than three factions of Branch Davidians have laid legal claim to the 77-acre property outside the city, producing yet another bizarre standoff, with separate churches for two factions and a histrionic display by the third, which dismisses the entire 51-day siege by federal agents at the compound as a diversion.

Marcus Aurelius, whose Meditations were written about this time, also was perturbed by such unreasonable stubbornness and regarded a readiness to die to come from judgment, "not out of sheer opposition like the Christians, but after reflection and with dignity, and so as to convince others, without histrionic display" (XI.3), a remark that may have been prompted by the events in Lyon.

"This was a defective, dismissive and histrionic display of nonanswers".

But the plain fact is that all four are ready to go negative when it serves their interests, and each man is capable of histrionic displays of virtue when he thinks he can accuse an opponent of taking the low road.

She has a jaundiced view of the profession and an allergy to histrionic displays.

Persons with histrionic personality disorder persistently display overly dramatic, highly excitable, and intensely expressed behaviour (i.e., histrionics).

She had further occasions to display her histrionic abilities in two weepies, I Found Stella Parish (1935) and Comet Over Broadway (1938), in both of which she played the daughter of the melodrama queen Kay Francis.

When they think Juliet is dead, the Nurse's reiterated sobs through the torso are bad ham, whereas Lady Capulet's artful histrionics are all flashy display.

Magnani's hot-blooded histrionics are on full display in Ms. Gambacorta's 90-minute biographical sketch, and though they might have been entertaining when serving a movie plot, in a first-person narrative, they're ultimately wearing.

Crowds sang, danced and jeered for 66 consecutive nights, displaying histrionics that rivaled even Lady Macbeth's.

And when she lurched into the razzle-dazzle histrionics of self-display, she was magnetic but somehow empty, like a woman possessed by an alien spirit, driven by hungers she could not understand and would never be able to sate.