;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
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Here is my example with WFTD.
Ole Grandad's pulling out, but i doubt this will end the libertarian histrionics. p>
Review Threads:
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
No pushing at the door please!
morningall.
Harrumph.
And bad link.
Perhaps now that Ron Paul has stopped campaigning, we will be delivered from his supporters’ histrionic displays at OTHER Candidates’ meetings.
toddlers! A+++
A+++ bombastic MOWron!
Irony thy name is statist ;)
He’s also a marroon.
Good morning - last final for my son today - yeah!
Al and Jesse use the same histrionics
Could a doctor check for brains with ultrasonics?
Racial warfare each time
Black on White? That’s not a crime
I’d understand it if I just learned ebonics
Best feeling in the world—leaving the classroom after successfully completing the final final. Makes you want to sing, “No more pencils, no more books...”
Political years, such as 2012, are times for massive histrionics—from politicians of all persuasions, left, right, and center. Political conventions, which will hit us before we know it, are particularly prone to repeated, demagogic histrionics.
The VERY WORST in living memory was the 2008 Democrat “Hope and Change” convention, which energized hordes of young people, women, and minorities to go out and vote for “the one”.
I hope that the electorate is so jaded and exhausted by all that histrionic foofarar that they won’t even watch the 2012 party conventions!!!!
Isn’t that the truth? I guess I’m very connected to my son’s education because we homeschooled him. So I’m always asking what they discussed or he tells me something interesting he learned. But we have ALWAYS loved the summer!
Loving the histrionics of an anti Romney ad blaming him for a plant Bain closed.....after Romney was gone, and Bain was being run by an Obama bundler. Classic.
I heard (somewhere) that liberals are displaying their histrionics by declaring they are canceling vacation plans in NC because of the Marriage Amendment. Fine, more beach for me when I go there on vacation.
Our oldest son lives near Dallas. Our daughter-in-law is homeschooling their kids, and they are way ahead of where the public school kids are, and even most of the kids in the pricey private schools. And, of course, they are being raised with a love and respect for God and Country, rather than for secular humanism and statism.
Seriously, no liberals would be a vacation for the locals as well!
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