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self-dramatizing

[ self-dram-uh-tahy-zing, -drah-muh-, self- ]

adjective

  1. exaggerating one's own qualities, role, situation, etc., for dramatic effect or as an attention-getting device; presenting oneself dramatically.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of self-dramatizing1

First recorded in 1935–40
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Example Sentences

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As self-dramatizing as she is self-effacing, the character is ill-equipped for everyday life.

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But I was still shocked by Monday’s self-dramatizing use of their platform.

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His stories had a self-dramatizing flair.

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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.

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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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