Sentence examples for kind of histrionic from inspiring English sources

Ms. Manchester has done away with the kind of histrionic flourishes that used to echo Judy Garland and Ethel Merman.

The kind of histrionic expressions and gestures that, in the age of sound films, came to be seen as old-fashioned here achieve their apotheosis.

The envy would be the same, the fears, the ruthlessness". It's the kind of histrionic role that allows the actress to let it all out, or almost all.

And on the subject of atheist froth: just mentioning that unforgivable, incendiary and very very naughty word 'God' in some quarters of our 'brave new society' provokes the kind of histrionics that makes most Christians hardly more animated than the residents of Madame Tussauds (at least this side of the pond anyway)!

"We try to avoid those kinds of histrionic computers".

Responsible teachers ought to be beating these kinds of histrionics out of their students but are too often perpetrators themselves.

The few stars who gave long acceptance speeches seemed to realize, midway, that those kinds of histrionics were reserved for Academy Awards, and that they might have dented their chances at Oscars.

His version is sort of histrionic, which I can't really pull off.

It's set in the land of high sentiment, family feuds and generation-gap histrionics, in the kind of small town where such touches seem less quaint than they otherwise might.

Or is this just the way we used to do things - before Tony Blair's histrionic speeches devalued that kind of oratory?

Initially, and perhaps inevitably, as the child of histrionic parents, Odets gravitated to performing.