Certain of his contemporaries noticed that, in later life, Poe manifested a theatrical or histrionic air.

I had been away two nights, but like a possessive woman it had the histrionic air of being abandoned.

Miss Chetwynd, simpering momentarily, came forward with that self-conscious, slightly histrionic air, which is one of the penalties of pedagogy.

"Constance!" exclaimed Mrs. Baines with a histrionic air of bewilderment.