(1) Others have found more striking-power, or more simple poetry, but none an interpretation at once so full (in the sense of histrionic volume) and so consistently bringing all the aspects together, without any shirking or pruning away of what is inconvenient.
(2) At the scale level, an analysis of variance (ANOVA) demonstrated that the scores obtained by the Black and White groups were significantly different in 9 of the 20 scales (Histrionic, Narcissistic, Antisocial, Paraphrenia, Hypomania, Dysthymia, Alcohol Abuse, Drug Abuse, and Psychotic Delusion).
(3) Oscar Pistorius was accused on Monday of deliberately breaking down into tearful histrionics to avoid difficult questions about the night he shot dead his girlfriend.
(4) I predict another penalty shootout, with it going the same way as 2006, but perhaps without the Argentine histrionics afterwards.
(5) There is one very obvious potential role model, and it is emphatically not that of her histrionic late mother-in-law – rather the Windsors' stalwart, long-serving and self-effacing patriarch.
(6) For patients and informants, NAR PD scores (i.e., the number of positive NAR PD criteria for each subject) were significantly correlated with histrionic (HIS) and borderline (BOR) PD scores and with scores of some PDs outside DSM-III-R's "cluster B."
(7) Kabuki as we see it today - in, for example, Shunkan or The Scene on Devil's Island, one of the greatest in the repertoire - is action-packed, scenically thrilling and histrionically flamboyant.
(8) This paper argues that the antisocial and histrionic disorders have cultural histories, representing (in extreme form) values strongly congruent with familiar cultural stereotypes: the 'independent' male and the 'dependent' female.
(9) Men scored significantly higher on the paranoid, schizoid, compulsive, antisocial, and narcissistic dimensions, whereas women had significantly higher histrionic, dependent, and avoidant scores.
(10) Antisocial, histrionic, narcissistic, borderline, and compulsive personalities have been associated with lying.
(11) Significantly more histrionics were coded for the type of repression in which the threatening figure is transformed into a harmless object (code 1:42), while animal- and statue-repressions, when combined (codes 1:1 and 1:2), were significantly more characteristic of the nonhistrionic group.
(12) It was his pantomime of histrionic shock at the news he'd got through to the finals that kicked off the public hate campaign.
(13) A common marital pattern was noted: a dependent, histrionic wife and an emotionally detached husband.
(14) There was a significant positive correlation between histrionic traits and activity level and a significant negative correlation between sociability and heart rate.
(15) The media might hold the likes of Terry up as heroes and let them get away with such histrionics every Saturday afternoon, but it's painful to watch eight-year-olds mimicking that sort of behaviour even in the playground.
(16) The authors suggest that histrionic individuals develop antisocial personality if they are male and somatization disorder if female; moreover, all three conditions may represent alternative manifestations or different stages of the same underlying diathesis.
(17) Within the histrionic disturbance of the personality there was a clear predominance of women, whereas in the others types, no significant differences were observed.
(18) As a mixed (borderline-histrionic) personality, the patient possibly might have dissociated under stressful life circumstances.
(19) The battery consisted of items tapping anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, phobias, borderline personality disorder, and histrionic, obsessive-compulsive, and paranoid personality styles.
(20) The most common PDQ diagnoses were schizotypal, histrionic, and borderline disorders, but avoidant and dependent personality features also occurred.
Thespian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Thespis; hence, relating to the drama; dramatic; as, the Thespian art.
(n.) An actor.
Example Sentences:
(1) He owed his late-flourishing film career to Branagh, appearing in a string of his movies: as Bardolph in Henry V (1989), Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing (1993), the old blind man in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), a cantankerous old thespian in A Midwinter's Tale (1995), Polonius in Hamlet (1996) and Sir Nathaniel in the musical Love's Labour's Lost (2000).
(2) Now it appears he has aspirations to be a leading thespian.
(3) The idea of the vampire as a silver-tongued aristocrat, like Count Dracula, is mirrored in Irving's thespian mannerisms, and his fascination with theatrical villains.
(4) I'm buying because he is between jobs, as the thespians say.
(5) It was a showcase for thespian fireworks – and perhaps, it could be admitted, showed O'Toole's weakness for stagey hamminess, which was to come to full, legendary flower not in the movies but in his stage version of Macbeth in 1981.
(6) Dalton, for example, admittedly more of a stage actor, is possibly best known since for voicing a thespian toy hedgehog in Toy Story 3.
(7) Particularly arresting were the new uses Bush was making of her voice: tracks such as Pull Out the Pin and Suspended in Gaffa teemed with a panoply of exaggerated accents and jarring phrasings, as Bush applied thespian emphasis on particular words or syllables, and developed a whole new vocabulary of harsh shrieks and throat-scorched yelps.
(8) Gough had made it known he was slightly miffed that many high-profile thespians were taking up the minor roles in Olivier's Richard III (1955), leaving little room for actors like himself.
(9) Many have done that before, with equally accomplished thespian delivery, including Hugh Laurie earlier that evening (“I accept this award on behalf of psychopathic billionaires everywhere”).
(10) The opening production, in 1960, was Manzoni's Adelchi, a heavyweight poetic classic, which enabled Gassman to show off his flamboyant thespian qualities - but which frankly bored audiences.
(11) Returning home from National Service, he declared that he fancied being a thespian and duly won a scholarship to Rada.
(12) Listen to the tracks below and let us know what you make of the thespian covers.
(13) The British Museum exhibition focuses on the rivalry, partly engineered but at heart real enough, between actors known as Rikan and Shikan (although in the bewildering world of Japanese thespian nomenclature, they had at least three other names), who embodied opposite principles of acting.
(14) The thespian couple, who have been together for almost 19 years, held their civil partnership ceremony at Islington town hall, north London.
(15) Andrew Faulds, the unmistakably loud and thespian Labour backbencher, who has died aged 77, was a House of Commons character who never managed to live up to the role he envisaged for himself.
(16) A masterly comic writer whose work on The Day Today and with Coogan on the Alan Partridge shows preceded a move into high-end theatre, Marber is armed to respond to the accusation that Lewes, from a town of 16,000 an hour's walk from Brighton and Hove Albion's new Falmer Community Stadium, have been taken over by thespians.
(17) 9 Oklahoma State, both for his skills and for his reputation for being, let’s put this in a nice way, something of an on-court thespian .
(18) I will tell you, I had the most difficult time I've ever had with another thespian – with the gentleman who played my father in that film [Michael Parks].
(19) Having toured the country's class map pretty extensively – middle-class family, posh private school, bohemian squats, thespian acclaim – by the turn of the century Coltrane had graduated to the senior ranks of celebrity, which could be classified as a form of modern-day aristocracy.
(20) And likely for the same motives: a realistic and grown-up acceptance of their own not very considerable thespian limits, and a taste for high-impact expressive minimalism in performance, the currency of pure movie stars, not of actors per se.