histrionic

histrionic englannista suomeksi

1. huomionhakuinen, huomionkipeä

1. histrioninen, näyttelijä / näyttelijän; -mainen / näyttelijämäinen resembling actors or their manners, teatraalinen

2. histrioninen, huomionkipeä, näyttävä, teatraalinen

histrionic englanniksi

1. Of or relating to actors or acting.

(synonyms)

2. (quote-journal)|month=July|year=1816|volume=III|issue=VIII|page=164|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=k6dKAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA164|oclc=9772077|passage=After three years of constant applause, Miss Elizabeth O'Neill (actress)|Elizabeth O'Neill directed her steps towards the summit of histrionick exertion, being engaged for the season of 1814 at Covent Garden, where she made her first ''entrée'' as ''Juliet'', on the 6th of October, being at once recognised as the first Hibernian actress, who had joined transcendant beauty with rare histrionick talent, since the time of Mrs. Woffington|Peg Woffington.

3. (quote-journal); published for the proprietors, at the Literary Gazette office,(nb...)|date=14 June 1823|issue=334|page=381|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=FdZRAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA381|column=3|oclc=1009015967|passage=On Saturday, Miss F. H. Kelly played Belvidera for the first time, to a crowded House, and for her own benefit;—for her own benefit in every way, for the performance added a wreath to her histrionic laurels, and drew down the warmest testimonies of applause.

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5. (quote-book)|chapter=The Affair at the Novelty Theatre|title=The Case of Miss Elliott|location=London|publisher=Fisher Unwin|Thomas Fisher Unwin|year=1905|oclc=12400107|newversion=republished in|title2=The Old Man in the Corner: Twelve Mysteries|location2=Kelly Bray, Cornwall|publisher2=House of Stratus|year2=2008|section2=chapter 2|page2=207|pageurl2=https://books.google.com/books?id=FrBQ-onkezgC&pg=PA207|isbn2=978-0-7551-1665-2|ol2=8479084W|passage=(..) Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.

6. Excessively dramatic or emotional, especially with the intention to draw attention.

7. (RQ:Cowper Task)

8. (quote-journal). A Biography.'' In Four Books. By Forster (biographer)|John Forster. London, 1848. review|journal=British Review|The North British Review|location=Edinburgh|publisher=W. P. Kennedy,(nb...); London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co.; Dublin: (publisher)|James M‘Glashan|month=May–August|year=1848|volume=IX|page=208|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=6DYaAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA208|oclc=995570491|passage=The mode and the expression of honour to literature in France has continued to this hour tainted with false and histrionic feeling, because originally it grew up from spurious roots, prospered unnaturally upon deep abuses in the system, and at this day (so far as it still lingers) memorialises the political bondage of the nation.

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10. (quote-book)'' during the important bombardment scene inside the prison, which introduces De Sica|Vittorio De Sica's most histrionic speech.

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