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histrionic
1. would rather be seen as a paranoid and histrionic maniac by the
2. histrionic played a very helpful role in convincing me further that
3. Making use of my histrionic skills, my words began to go out with a tone of modesty that was improper on me, without many inflections, given a touch of extreme humility to the monotonous character of my voice
4. There, Severa shone as a sole Queen and Lady, as a theater actress before a large audience, she was devoted in sharing not only her gastronomic talents but the histrionic also
5. George had found another occasional lover to seduce in his attic and Marvin took me to a private house where an oleaginous Catholic priest held court among a gaggle of somewhat histrionic and nervous queers overburdened by their unwanted outlaw status
6. Why did these East Germans seek to perpetuate their archaic salutations in such histrionic and fatuitous style? Valentin Zinoviev, well groomed and very conservative in outward appearance, a shrewd and ruthless planner inside, shook Komadze's hand and permitted a brief salutary smile
7. An example of this would be the Histrionic
8. A study at the University of Surrey showed many senior managers and executives, other ‘professionals’ not being excluded, outscore mental patients on histrionic (over dramatic in reaction or behaviour) or narcissistic (excessive self-admiration and self-centredness) behaviours and compulsive personalities
9. "But the histrionic muse is the darling
10. Don't ever tell ME any more that a nigger ain't got any histrionic talent
11. She felt embarrassed, as if last night she had been overly histrionic
12. ' In such cases our bourgeois paterfamilias waves his hands and exclaims: 'What a terrible thing! If only their abilities were turned to good—their inventiveness, their amazing knowledge of human psychology, their self-possession, their fearlessness, their incomparable histrionic powers! What extraordinary benefits they would bring to the country!' But it is well known that the bourgeois paterfamilias was specially devised by Heaven to utter commonplaces and trivialities
13. As a “star,” she is of course entitled to treat herself to any luxury that may seem to tempt her histrionic appetite, and the Gallic siren evidently appeals to her
14. She is by no means lacking in histrionic ability
