How to Use histrionic in a Sentence

histrionic

adjective
  • This may sound like the setup for a histrionic sci-fi soap opera.
    Judy Berman, TIME, 17 Jan. 2025
  • This is histrionic and fun and has a nice ending with Michael Longfellow.
    EW.com, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Denis bolted down the stairs in what seemed to me like histrionic distress.
    Bill Buford, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2020
  • There is no histrionic sweetness, just a tamarind undertow, a kiss of lime and brine from knots of dried shrunken shrimp.
    Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2017
  • The frontman navigates the rest of the album in a histrionic frenzy, as if the ghosts of old flames as well as those of New Order and the Cure and the rest of the post-punk canon are out to get him.
    Billboard Staff, Billboard, 22 Nov. 2017
  • The histrionic burden falls heaviest on Lock, who cannot be said to emerge unscathed.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Opposition to the project, loud and histrionic, has come from a variety of quarters.
    Hari Kunzru, The New York Review of Books, 8 Sep. 2020
  • The true-crime memoir’s preoccupation with the stormy inner life of its author doesn’t have to be histrionic.
    Laura Miller, Slate Magazine, 15 Aug. 2017
  • Even the bass solos sung by Frank Mitchell benefited from sounding less like a histrionic sermon and more like a heart-to-heart message.
    David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 18 June 2017
  • The knowingly histrionic zoomer soap opera has become a slasher movie.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Bruce Cabot, while not astonishing in his histrionic ability, does ably as the hero.
    Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Mar. 2018
  • These voters are more likely to respond to straight talk about the issues than histrionic talk about the death of American democracy, even if the fear is real.
    Dave Anderson, Baltimore Sun, 22 July 2024
  • In fact, the story owes less to magical realism than to histrionic crime dramas.
    Elizabeth Winkler, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Hence the histrionic headlines announcing Mr. Graham’s about-face atop stories that fail even to mention the about-face of his opponents.
    Barton Swaim, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2020
  • On Monday evening, the former president sent out a histrionic press release.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Like Napoleon himself, Maguire had legions of detractors, and made many enemies during his long run as offstage king of the histrionic boards.
    Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 July 2021
  • Both Wu and Camp come off a bit histrionic, as if their desire to play to the rafters (an admittedly difficult task in the Ahmanson) subsumes anything else.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Nov. 2022
  • However, this works better, and Cecily is great as the histrionic dog owner.
    Alexis Pereira, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2022
  • The movie works only because Kidman can play in such different registers: the muted, wide-eyed bride and her thrilling, histrionic other.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2024
  • As a piece of political rhetoric, the word has become numbingly histrionic.
    Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Remember her histrionic thumbs down on the minimum wage?
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 1 Oct. 2021
  • That, roughly speaking, is the thesis of a group of writers who, since Trump’s election in 2016, have chastised the left for its supposedly histrionic excesses.
    Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 25 Nov. 2019
  • It’s been a histrionic season for the cast at News Corp., particularly its mainstage production at Fox News.
    Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2023
  • That may sound a tad histrionic; politicians have always been in the business of swaying opinion, and propaganda has always been part of geopolitics.
    Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 12 Mar. 2024
  • On the right, there’s a parallel, if more histrionic, insistence that the Democrats and the liberal establishment comprise some sort of tyrannical front.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2022
  • And their histrionic mother Shelly (Judith Light) has embraced life as an amateur actor.
    Robyn Bahr, Billboard, 18 Sep. 2019
  • And their histrionic mother Shelly (Judith Light) has embraced life as an amateur actor.
    Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Sep. 2019
  • And their histrionic mother Shelly (Judith Light) has embraced life as an amateur actor.
    Robyn Bahr, Billboard, 18 Sep. 2019
  • And at a time when politics seems to be downright histrionic in many parts of the world, Germany’s election campaign has felt surprisingly soporific.
    Yascha Mounk, Slate Magazine, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Based on Muriel Spark’s indelible novel, the film was a perfect vehicle for Smith’s histrionic charm and seductive wizardry.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2024

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