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  • A histrionic gay, Southern teen calling himself Chris Crocker sobbed and shrieked in a raw, impassioned defense of a fallen pop princess. With more than 18 million downloads, the popularity of this video confirms ... that anonymous drama queens are just as entertaining as pop-star train wrecks.  (source)
  • Cruelty knows that it has no need of histrionics.†  (source)
  • After the usual histrionics about the deteriorated state of my beauty, they get right down to business.†  (source)
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  • McCandless's postcards, notes, and journals read like the work of an above average, somewhat histrionic high school kid, or am I missing something?†  (source)
  • It was her sister Hermione she was soothing—Hermione, stealer of scenes, little mistress of histrionics, whom she pressed against her breasts.†  (source)
  • "Here is my Elizabeth," said Clarissa, emotionally, histrionically, perhaps.†  (source)
  • Dan talked everyone into The Gravesend Players; he got half the faculty at the academy to bring out the hams in themselves, and he roused the histrionic natures of half the townspeople by inviting them to try out for his productions.†  (source)
  • But Aro's face was only politely amused, as if waiting for a tantrum-throwing child to realize that no one was paying attention to his histrionics.†  (source)
  • And he handed his papers to Amritrao and left, calling from the door histrionically yet with intense passion, "Aziz, Aziz—farewell for ever."†  (source)
  • Frequently this disorder is accompanied by many features of other Personality Disorders, such as Schizotypal, Histrionic, Narcissistic, and Antisocial Personality Disorders.†  (source)
  • Great histrionics, she thought.†  (source)
  • I played histrionic games with Ken and Barbie where Barbie, by sixteen, had married, given birth, and gotten divorced from Ken.†  (source)
  • Their father, bewildered by the infant's histrionics, took the babies' older brother, Nabi, and escaped to sleep at his own brother's house.†  (source)
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