histrionics \his-tree-ON-iks\, noun:
1. Behavior or speech for effect, as insincere or exaggerated expression of an emotion.
2. Dramatic representation; theatricals; acting.
You are constantly talking about Beate's histrionics, her showing off.
-- Alberto Moravia, 1934
Of course it is not only southern writers, of lyrical bent, who engage in such histrionics and shout, "Look at me!" Perhaps it is a parable of all artists.
-- Tennessee Williams, New Selected Essays
Though it sounds like the word history, histrionics has a different root. It comes from the Etruscan root histriōn- which meant "actor".
裝腔作勢\他的樹-ON-IKS\,名詞:
1。行為或言論的影響,言不由衷或誇張的情感表達。
2。戲劇性的代表性;戲劇演出;演技。
你不斷地談論·貝亞特·的裝腔作勢,她炫耀。
- 阿爾貝托摩拉維亞,1934年
當然,它不僅是南方作家抒情彎曲,在從事這樣的裝腔作勢和呼喊,“看看我!”也許是所有藝術家的比喻。
- 田納西·威廉斯,新選定的散文
雖然它聽起來像這個詞的歷史,裝腔作勢,有一個不同的根。它是從的伊特魯里亞根histriōn的意思是“演員”。
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