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histrionics

/his-tree-on-iks/US // ˌhɪs triˈɒn ɪks //

组织学,组织性的,组织性的东西

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : dramatic representation; theatricals; acting.
    • : behavior or speech for effect, as insincere or exaggerated expression of an emotion; dramatics; operatics: Cut out the histrionics—we know you're not really mad.

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Examples

  • But the histrionics in that caucus are simply a prelude to an ultimate cave.

  • Their histrionics were more appropriate for a bad episode of Law & Order.

  • Such a slow set-up was typical: no crash-bang corpse-on-first-page histrionics.

  • We say should because only you, and your histrionics, stand in the way.

  • The histrionics continued as he got out of the car, went into makeup and sat down to talk to Ted Koppel.

  • He would wish to know what it was supposed to be, like Nash's histrionics.

  • Mary continued without giving much attention to these histrionics.

  • At such times she astonished him by taking his most solemn histrionics with flippant incredulity, and even burlesquing them.

  • He saw the humour of the comedy he was acting, and dispassionately approved himself, because he did not give way to histrionics.

  • Are you about to turn actor, and do you trust to her for instruction in histrionics?