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    Frequently this disorder is accompanied by many features of other Personality Disorders, such as Schizotypal, Histrionic, Narcissistic, and Antisocial Personality Disorders.†  (source)
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    Simon tells himself to stop being so extreme and histrionic.†  (source)
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    I played histrionic games with Ken and Barbie where Barbie, by sixteen, had married, given birth, and gotten divorced from Ken.†  (source)
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    There was less bulimia and more fights than I had known as an undergrad, but the same feminine ethos was present—empathetic camaraderie and bawdy humor on good days, and histrionic dramas coupled with meddling, malicious gossip on bad days.†  (source)
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    Cruelty knows that it has no need of histrionics.†  (source)
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    And he handed his papers to Amritrao and left, calling from the door histrionically yet with intense passion, "Aziz, Aziz—farewell for ever."†  (source)
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    Her stomach gurgled in fear—fear not of the Commandant himself but of failure of nerve, fear that she would ultimately lack the craft, the power of improvisation, the subtlety of manner, the histrionic gift, at last the beguiling convincingness by which she so desperately yearned to maneuver him into a vulnerable position and thus perhaps bend him to serve the modest demands of her will.†  (source)
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    Yet Grover drove through the whole grand catastrophe undistracted, as though the torching of a place simply did not matter to him, or as though it were no more than some histrionics he'd ordered up.†  (source)
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    "Here is my Elizabeth," said Clarissa, emotionally, histrionically, perhaps.†  (source)
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    That is where Valerie gets her histrionic talent from.†  (source)
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    After the usual histrionics about the deteriorated state of my beauty, they get right down to business.†  (source)
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    Of course the atmosphere of those three or four days before the funeral was so melodramatic, histrionic and unreal that any hallucination was possible.†  (source)
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    Great histrionics, she thought.†  (source)
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