Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 21, 2025
Just as in the old days men committed all sorts of crimes in order to please their sovereign, now they commit similar crimes in order to satisfy the people. And this truth has been recognized from Aristotle to Burke. Democracy ends in histrionism. A man who gets up to talk before a crowd must of necessity be an actor.
Longer and longer grew the shadows, and the faint tinkle of bells came in through the windows. The cows were beginning to come home. The spell of Aunt Jane's dramatic art was upon me. I began to feel that my own personality had somehow slipped away from me, and those dead people, evoked from their graves by an old woman's histrionism, seemed more real to me than my living, breathing self.
"I'm tired!" was the message Genevieve Maud sent to a sympathetic world on the wings of this megaphonic roar. The trained nurse, who had rushed down-stairs and into the garden, now reached her side and drastically checked Genevieve Maud's histrionism by spreading a spacious palm over the wide little mouth.
Assuredly, the old school was a fine one. It had its faults, of course floridness, pomposity, too much histrionism. It was, indeed, very like the old school of acting, in its defects as in its qualities. With all his defects, what a relief it is to see one of the old actors among a cast of new ones! How he takes the stage, making himself felt and heard!
So much is bound to be over or under done. Cheever made a pretense of rushing out of his office. He looked at his watch violently, so that his secretary should be startled as he politely pretended to be. Cheever gasped, then rushed his lie with sickly histrionism: "I say, Hudspeth, call up my Mrs. Cheever, will you? And er tell her I've had to dash for the train to er Phila" cough "delphia.
Then at times came the exceptionally decorous and intellectual congregations I have hinted it; for the Bowery really furnish'd plays and players you could get nowhere else. Notably, Booth always drew the best hearers; and to a specimen of his acting I will now attend in some detail. I happen'd to see what has been reckon'd by experts one of the most marvellous pieces of histrionism ever known.
Janvier must be taken as virtually sincere. A certain histrionism, which was one of his charms, and is perhaps inseparable from imaginative temperaments, doubtless had its share in his consciousness of that "dual nature" of which we hear so much, and which it is difficult sometimes to take with Sharp's "Celtic" seriousness. Mrs.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking