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词汇 histrionics
释义 histrionics
noun[ plural ]
 disapprovinguk /ˌhɪs.triˈɒn.ɪks/ us /ˌhɪs.triˈɑː.nɪks/
very emotional and energetic behaviour that is not sincere and has no real meaning: 装腔作势
I'd had enough of Lydia's histrionics.我受够了莉迪娅的装腔作势。
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histrionics | American Dictionary


histrionics
plural noun
us/ˌhɪs·triˈɑn·ɪks/
loud, emotional behavior that does not seem sincere:
Both lawyers indulged in courtroom histrionics.

Examples of histrionics


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.
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Histrionics do not help, they merely create unnecessary fronts.
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I really do not think he can get a great deal of histrionics out of that.
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He referred to the tendency to encourage exhibitionists and histrionics.
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I am incapable of the sort of histrionics we have just heard.
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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.
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We must avoid histrionics in talking about employment in local government.
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It is time that these hour by hour histrionics came to an end.
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It was not history without tears; it was history with histrionics.
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Mixed up with vanity, histrionics, zest for power or the illusion of power, they mostly have good intentions.
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I dislike histrionics at all times, particularly when it is a very serious matter of this description.
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There have been no histrionics about these matters or the kind that occurred recently about a single currency.
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For all the histrionics and everything that they will hear between now and then, by and large they have already made up their minds.
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