;Posted on 05/15/2012 6:26:01 AM PDT by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Tuesday, 5/15/12
;In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
histrionic; adj.; noun; adv.
1. excessively dramatic, insincere, or artificial: histrionic gestures 2. rare dramatic
— n 3. ( plural ) melodramatic displays of temperament 4. rare ( plural, functioning as singular ) dramatics
[C17: from Late Latin histriōnicus of a player, from histriō actor]
histrionical or histrionical
— adj
— n
[C17: from Late Latin histriōnicus of a player, from histriō actor]
histri'onically or histrionical
— adv
Etymology: 1648, from L. histrionicus "pertaining to an actor," from histrio (gen. histrionis) "actor," said to be of Etruscan origin
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Love watching FPL implode on national TV where there is a much bigger audience than he’s used to.
Our daughter is giving up teaching for now. She just can't take the little brats anymore. Her new hubby got another job in Kansas, so they will be moving in June.
Thank you! I do not miss the screeching, door slamming, overblown arguments that went on over there for everyone on the road to hear and talk about-I’m loving the quiet.
I love Thomas Sowell-he never makes less than complete sense.
I don’t view it as an excuse by the educators - they don’t develop the curriculum, they just deliver it. And it is designed to teach the skills to pass the test - and in case you weren’t aware schools just do the minimum anymore. It’s all they can do because of the idiots who won’t help their kids at home so the curriculum has been dumbed down. Perhaps you haven’t seen in at the elementary level, but it will begin to show in Middle School and will slap you in the face in High School.
Oh I’m sorry - I’m finally getting my daughter home for the first time in years!!!
I saw that lightning struck the plane the new French Socialist president was on the way to Germany on-that is too funny for words! I’ll Bet Angela Merkel is laughing in private-maybe someone is trying to tell this guy something?
Point is: if they didn’t have some objective measure (the tests) they’d be even worse.
hilarious!!
my husband is dragging me to a LeAnn Rimes concert tonight. he LURRRRRVS her, RME. oddly enough, it’s going to be at the Howard Theater, which is on the campus of Howard University, an historically black college! my SIL has dared me to scream out HOMEWRECKER from the audience, LOL! so i will be staying at my ofc til the ungodly hour of 5:30 PM until he retrieves me. we drove in together, he dropped me at the ofc so we wouldn’t have two cars here, and xsboy has picked up his sister from school.
Yup.
Oh it’s just a little stereotypical humor.
Besides it really makes the guys seem wayyyy pathetic ;)
Tell us how anorexic she looks. She recently sold her house down the road from us. Not exactly in my price range...
stereotypical gender stuff drives me crazy and makes me hate my co-genderists. i am not wild about women in general. i like my friends, but there are plenty o women i can’t abide.
Sports are fun to watch and play! Unless it’s golf. Or baseball. And why does ESPN broadcast spelling bees?
she looked pretty anorexic last year, i think i sent you the pic he had taken with her, her legs were all bony and chickenlike. i said she probably was not looking for a sugardaddy who had no $, so he was likely SOL where she is concerned.
Well, the good thing is that she can leave on “good terms” since it is because of his job move. See your FR mail.
I remember that! Xshub was beaming and she looked scrawny.
his fixation is SOOOO unseemly! and a new country singer, i will have to ask xsteen to remind me of her name, is a Visitation alum from the year before xsteen, new on the scene, he thinks she is good too. RME at the softcore country porn! xsteen’s eyes have rolled out of her head over that bc the girl is from up here and i’m sorry but that just ain’t country!
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