Sentence examples for histrionic talent from inspiring English sources

But the defense witness was so appealing, and her histrionic talent so great that they didn't have the heart to convict.

Neither parent had any connection with the theatre, though Cunningham once said that his father had a certain histrionic talent in the courtroom.

Mr. Skybell chooses the odd tactic of suggesting that Bottom has some real histrionic talent, although he belabors Pyramus's death to the point of exhaustion, as actors often do.

Though we do not know the names of the boy actors who played Rosalind and Celia in As You Like It or Viola and the lady Olivia in Twelfth Night, we can recognize as Shakespeare must have—the histrionic talent required to perform those multilayered comic roles with grace and power.

There were lectures and classes for the crew, and various theatrical diversions in which Markham was able to display his "great histrionic talent".

Perhaps histrionic talents are essential for political success.... To a great extent, what you saw with Mussolini was what you got.

But the readings drew on more permanent elements in him and his art: his remarkable histrionic talents, his love of theatricals and of seeing and delighting an audience, and the eminently performable nature of his fiction.

CEO Steve Burke, an ultimate suit, impatient with television talent histrionics, was pleased to send yet another signal to the talent and their agents: everybody's replaceable, so don't negotiate with us too hard.

Something in his own personality, a crucial aspect of his own talent for the darkly dramatic and the histrionic, met its match in the South.

Not because Beckham has the greater talent or track record, surely, but because, rather, he has an absolute genius for the histrionic.

I can think of very few roles in the standard theatrical repertory that are ideally suited to the baroque talents of David Greenspan, a downtown theater mainstay whose sensibility is at once rarefied and lowdown, unabashedly histrionic and rigorously intelligent.