In "Studio" two sculptures are readily seen, especially a tall one making histrionic gestures.

It was the kind of histrionic gesture which appealed to dear Maggie.

So someone who brings it down smaller, using the mouth less histrionically, and with less histrionic gestures, is probably going to be more pleasing to a lay person.

He clapped his hand to his forehead in a histrionic gesture.

"In the end, that damned fool Julian burned his boats in one of those histrionic gestures you'll never see me doing."

He discovered that his fingers were splayed out in a histrionic gesture of alarm.

The amplification comes from her acting skills: the flashing eyes, the magnanimous stance, the histrionic gestures actually give the notes color and power.

As a single work, "Dark Elegy" depends too much on a histrionic gesture of loss to convey any deep feeling.

"Ode of Joy" is a brief political potboiler dependent on histrionic gesture and loud noise.

He avoids histrionic gestures, letting the majestic rhythms of the epic seize our emotions and guide them through the action.