What's the difference between histrionics and theatricals?
Histrionics
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(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.
Theatricals
Definition:
(n. pl.) Dramatic performances; especially, those produced by amateurs.
Example Sentences:
(1) At a theatrical device, it's a remarkable idea that a character will break the fourth wall.
(2) Years ahead of its time, it saw each song presented theatrically, the musicians concealed in the wings (although Bowie said that they kept creeping on to the stage, literally unable to resist the spotlight) and with Bowie performing on a cherry-picker and on a giant hand, both of which kept breaking down.
(3) "We are trying to create a theatrical version of The Arabian Nights which will do justice to the scale, depth and richness of the stories."
(4) Me and Taika would always do theatrical stuff, running around, miming, putting on voices.
(5) Dexter was a consummate theatrical craftsman and Lindsay was, in one form, a sort of poetic director.
(6) In 1997, the Globe was hardly the first space to challenge theatrical orthodoxy, but it was the first to return the event so wholeheartedly to the audience, and the first to do so in a way that felt so essentially English.
(7) Despite his Catholic upbringing, Clare lost his religious belief as a young man, saying he could not believe in a god that could cause famine, genocide and air crashes, although he admitted to missing the theatricality of the Catholic church.
(8) If someone’s able to keep such a stony-faced expression, it’s either high theatrics or they have no sympathy,” she added.
(9) Everyone was hooked to the drama and theatricality of it all.
(10) Young companies have woken up to the fact that puppetry isn't just a way of putting an extra actor on stage without paying food and accommodation costs, but a brilliant theatrical tool.
(11) Of all the senior clergy of the Church of England, she is arguably the least theatrical.
(12) Sharknado, a satirical disaster film featuring man-eating sharks let loose on Los Angeles by a freak cyclone, premiered on SyFy in 2013 and became a cult hit, gaining some traction later as a theatrical release.
(13) In fact, Guinness was an actor for a new theatrical style, subtle and undecorated.
(14) The costumes look remarkably grand for home theatricals, the jewellery is startlingly convincing, and the band evidently comprises moonlighting members of the Royal Horse Guards.
(15) His recognition of the theatrical value of its decay saved it from destruction.
(16) Theatrically backdropped by conical Great Sugarloaf mountain, the estate is landscaped with terraces, lakes and ponds, and also embraces the country's highest waterfall.
(17) And, although there are a few coups de théâtre (at one point the sky rains white balloons), audiences may be split over whether Van Hove has found a potent enough theatrical equivalent to Antonioni's visual poetry.
(18) When he finally deigned to sit down formally, it was in typically theatrical fashion: after midnight, on a big bed in a five-star suite, the Monte Carlo casino winking beneath our balcony, the ocean sighing behind us.
(19) 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.
(20) She returned here and auditioned for Bernard Delfont , the huge theatrical group – it was a cattle market in those days.