In the final third, Johnson nudges his characters into increasingly histrionic face-offs and unlikely reversals, diluting its distinctive flavour and taking on more generic prerogatives.
At its most histrionic, a sans face might have a lone bar (or "ear") protruding from the lowercase "g" or a particularly unconventional question mark.
Samantha Barks: As the cast's sole unknown, the twenty-two-year-old West End actress handles the forlorn Éponine — a role that, for many a theatre major, elicits cry-face histrionics — with poise.
He cuts away from intensely emotional moments that might turn loud and histrionic, while finding eloquence in the faces and gestures of the actors.
The band's tales of dead-end jobs and mundane melancholy without histrionics - apart from Vincent's manic face pulling - are a simple pleasure.
He said "the Congress we're about to get will be its [predecessor's] spit and image: familiar faces, timeworn histrionics, unending paralysis".
Some faces catch the eye by the subjects' histrionic verve, some by sheer pulchritude.
In the final scenes, for example, as the doomed trio face their fate, the dance languages are so histrionic that the drama flounders.
These violent deeds are preceded by long, histrionic speeches, but, as the characters deliver their orations, their faces, eerily, do not move.
A heartbreaking scene with Zoe Saldana is particularly affecting, as the former couple face up to their lost future not with histrionics but with finely tuned understatement.
But I can't avoid visiting him with Ricardo at least once, even though Ino is a florid, sweaty, histrionic queen, who throws his meaty arms around me and kisses my face unpleasantly whenever he remembers I'm in the room.
