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self-dramatizing
[ self-dram-uh-tahy-zing, -drah-muh-, self- ]
adjective
- exaggerating one's own qualities, role, situation, etc., for dramatic effect or as an attention-getting device; presenting oneself dramatically.
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of self-dramatizing1
Example Sentences
As self-dramatizing as she is self-effacing, the character is ill-equipped for everyday life.
But I was still shocked by Monday’s self-dramatizing use of their platform.
His stories had a self-dramatizing flair.
Katarina Joy Lopez takes on the most self-dramatizing of the characters, Austrian composer and author Alma Mahler, Gustav Mahler’s former wife who later married Gropius in a tortured, ill-fated union.
The stars were married artists — the underground filmmakers Marie Menken and Willard Maas — and the concept was consistent with some Warhol films of the period: Set the camera in a fixed position; shoot two reels of 16-millimeter stock as the personalities in the frame engage in a mix of self-dramatizing and simply being; then let those two reels, totaling around 66 minutes, run unedited.
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