How to Use histrionics in a Sentence

histrionics

noun

• It was assumed all of the late-game histrionics were done to get Dhue-Reid the record.
  — Mick McCabe, Detroit Free Press, 29 Oct. 2020
• That should temper some of the histrionics over last week's lawsuits filed by Epic Games against Google and Apple.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2020
• The performance was short on big-play histrionics but solidly filled with chain-moving plays.
  — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 27 Sep. 2021
• Lost in all the Super Bowl week histrionics is the fact that everything the Bengals do, the Rams do better, and have done better, and will be doing so on their home field.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2022
• This wasn’t Dez Bryant angrily waving his arms in the middle of the field and continuing his histrionics on the sideline.
  — Dallas News, 16 Jan. 2021
• The drama and histrionics in the courtroom were reflected in daily headlines.
  — Jeanne Dorin McDowell, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Oct. 2020
• The opposing batters, for their part, showed no histrionics or dramatic gestures, and there were no tears.
  — New York Times, 12 Jan. 2022
• The characters seem self-absorbed, and, alas, their romantic histrionics and struggles didn’t move me.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2022
• Daniels’s strength as a director lies less in his taste for histrionics and provocation than in his skill at observing quieter moments.
  — New York Times, 25 Feb. 2021
• Daniels handles that scene truthfully and well, without false histrionics.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 25 Feb. 2021
• The question is: Is Brian’s boiling rage, a rage compounded by mental illness, enough to raise the temperature of a film that at times involves more hot air and histrionics than actual heat?
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2022
• The finale had power aplenty, but delicacy, too, with none of the hell-for-leather histrionics that conductors often use to italicize the young Beethoven's sense of derring-do and adventure.
  — Terry Blain Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 24 Nov. 2020
• Farhadi piles on the entanglements not in the service of histrionics, but instead as a way to capture life’s intricacies in all its permutations.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Jan. 2022
• The movie derails into histrionics in its overwrought climax, but Close nevertheless stuns.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2021
• The histrionics of Communist Party propagandists ahead of the trip, Pelosi apparently surmised, were just that.
  — The Editors, National Review, 3 Aug. 2022
• The prosecutor’s opening statement contained none of the histrionics that could be expected of a trial involving a mass shooter menacing the hallways of his old high school.
  — Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel, 18 July 2022
• Recent polls are consistent in illustrating the country's divide over Trump and his post-election histrionics.
  — Calvin Woodward, Colleen Long and David Klepper, Chron, 18 July 2021
• Yet despite the histrionics over the years and the polarizing image OBJ engendered, that portrayal doesn't seem to square with actuality.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2022
• Just your typical histrionics on a Los Angeles Sunday afternoon that will feel like a movie audition.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2022
• To capture the extreme adversity of his upbringing, Cole returns to his favorite metaphor of the aspiring athlete—a decision that suits the album’s histrionics and fanfare.
  — Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 18 May 2021
• For their part, Chinese diplomats have responded to Pelosi’s reported plans with their typical histrionics.
  — The Editors, National Review, 27 July 2022
• Yes, House members will engage in histrionics, screaming and yelling about being jammed by the Senate — before relenting and capitulating to the upper chamber.
  — Charlie Dent, CNN, 30 July 2021
• Morris’ attorney, Jaye Schlachett, told Fuerst that prosecutors tried to use hyperbole and histrionics to sway the judge into imposing a long sentence.
  — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 29 June 2021
• But remember that his histrionics are intended to give political cover to Democrats in Congress who want to override 50 state election laws by jamming through H.R.1 on a partisan vote.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 31 May 2021
• No histrionics, no big on-court party when the final horn sounded and Milwaukee had officially vanquished its playoff loss to Miami from last season.
  — Tim Reynolds, ajc, 29 May 2021
• The reality of the camp — the lack of food, clothes, and medicine, the impossibility of escape or rebellion, the constant threat of internal discord among the prisoners — did not allow for the sort of histrionics shown by Alec Guinness’s character.
  — Paul Baumann, National Review, 3 Mar. 2022
• Known for his thunderous voice, a powerful memory, and a penchant for histrionics, Rynders made an immediate impact on New York City.
  — Jonathan Daniel Wells, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Oct. 2020
• There are no movie-of-the-week histrionics, and zero moralizing — just perceptive, thoroughly absorbing adult drama.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 May 2022
• And Dickey, in a performance of few words and zero histrionics, nonetheless unleashes an astonishing range of emotions.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2022
• While the sky may be everywhere, moving human emotion — no matter the gushing histrionics on display — are frustratingly difficult to locate.
  — Nick Schager, Variety, 10 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024