0 very emotional and energetic behaviour that is not sincere and has no real meaning:
I'd had enough of Lydia's histrionics.
The histrionics of the lead guitar, the excesses of the drummer, and the stupidity of the bass player have to mix on equal footing.
Blaxploitation counts as camp because it portrays such 'serious' subjects as racism and violence with overthe-top histrionics and costuming.
He employed histrionics, shouted, waved his arms in the air and tore at his hair.
Histrionics do not help, they merely create unnecessary fronts.
I really do not think he can get a great deal of histrionics out of that.
He referred to the tendency to encourage exhibitionists and histrionics.
I am incapable of the sort of histrionics we have just heard.
All his histrionics were addressed to the iniquities of forcing upon the profession something which he was treating as a permanent foundation for the future.
