How to Use histrionic in a Sentence

histrionic

adjective

• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• Voters remain fatigued after the histrionic battle between Macron and Le Pen.
  — Isobel Thompson, The Hive, 19 June 2017
• Running is not an attractive sport, other than the violent beauty of sprinters or the histrionic slow motion of runners in, say, Chariots of Fire.
  — Matthew Batt, Outside Online, 13 Oct. 2015
• For those counting, this is the fourth cycle Democrats have made histrionic claims of external threat, internal menace and political demise.
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2022
• But another classic fantasy property this year changed the race of some of its primary characters, and there weren't histrionic op-eds or an avalanche of hateful tweets.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 9 Oct. 2022
• North Korea, however, issues an unrelenting stream of histrionic threats that comport with its recklessness in the shelling of...
  — Mark Helprin, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2017
• Bearded and stocky, Zohar has a lilting baritone and an open, histrionic personality that comes across as charming.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 24 June 2019
• And his final death scene, of course, was his histrionic suicide, which was also performative and intended for an audience.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2023
• Some of the encounters — such as one in which Lola and T heap their own misplaced fury on another pathetic patient played by Marilyn Torres — are histrionic.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 20 May 2022

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024