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What does histrionic mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of, or relating to actors or acting.
  2. Excessively dramatic or emotional, especially with the intention to draw attention.
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My friends hated these poems because the poems were crazy and because Bingo read them in a crazy, histrionic manner.
Dubble pushed off into the air again and in a histrionic sally swung his arms open, as if to dramatize his explanation.
They encored with England Made Me, and a brilliantly dispassionate version of one of Bowie's more histrionic moments.
The director, Gurudanapal, says Satyaraj gets maximum mileage of the story with his histrionic and comedy talent.
As Godard declares, in his own histrionic manner, the end of cinema is nigh.
Taking offence, making a show of it, is a peculiarly self-theatrical, melodramatic, histrionic gesture in the annals of criticism.

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