histrionic

huomionhakuinen, huomionkipeä Of, or relating to actors or acting.
{{quote-book|year=1905|author=w:Emma Orczy|Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Excessively dramatic or emotional, especially with the intention to draw attention.
1848, w:Thomas De Quincey|Thomas De Quincey, Oliver Goldsmith (review of John Forster, Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith), The North British Review, Volume 9: May—August, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=6DYaAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA208&dq=%22Tainted+with+false+and+histrionic+feeling%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=IrqAUYO6M4i1iQfn5oGwDw&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22Tainted%20with%20false%20and%20histrionic%20feeling%22&f=false page 208,

(..)and hence it is that the mode and the expression of honour to literature in France has continued to this hour tainted with false and histrionic feeling,(..).

Trotsky's vanity, unlike Stalin's, was, practically speaking, frivolous. There was something more histrionic about it. He had shown himself no less ruthless than Stalin. Indeed, at the time of the Civil War, he had ordered executions on a greater scale than Stalin or anyone else.

This lens (known as a carello ottico in Italian and a travelling optique in French) is used sparingly but effectively in General Della Rovere during the important bombardment scene inside the prison, which introduces De Sica's most histrionic speech.

So, as he keeps her endlessly frustrated, she becomes more histrionic; and as she projects her emotional, “dirty” parts onto him, he becomes more anal and compulsive.

A vicious circle may form in which the more rejected they feel the more histrionic they become, and the more histrionic they become the more rejected they feel.