histrionic

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• If there’s a point to this exercise, it gets lost amid so many histrionic reenactments of scenes we’ve seen replayed on the news and parodied in late-night comedy for more than two decades.

• While King’s narrative romanticizes the relationship between mental illness and creativity, Larraín’s histrionic direction often reduces these elements to camp.

• We get an amusingly histrionic psychological thriller from Plaza and a clever Ronald Reagan pastiche from Duplass and actor-producer Ethan Sandler.

• The moral duties and doubts of adulthood are swapped out for the histrionic creeds of adolescence.

• Silver Linings Playbook allowed her to explode, playing a woman unhinged, histrionic, and emotionally volatile.

• Wall Street Journal editorial-page writer Dorothy Rabinowitz recorded a histrionic anti-bike video that went viral.

• Such miscues mired the show in histrionic soapiness, upsetting the delicate balance between domestic drama and social change.

• In fact, The Newsroom seems to relish putting loud women in their place or to render them helpless and histrionic.

• This rare merit even the most fastidious critic must allow: but her histrionic essay is, in another respect, equally remarkable.

• She has inherited the histrionic gift from her mother—from me.

• Histrionic art always and everywhere suffers from the ephemeral conditions under which it has to be externalised.