histrionics

Converse of object

• avoid: For a film with a demon bunny in it, Kelly manages to almost completely avoid any histrionics.
• need: He's such an effective player, he doesn't need the histrionics.

Adjective modifier

• vocal: Suffice to say that these were all the constituents we needed for a night of raucous binge drinking and eye-popping vocal histrionics.

Noun used with modifier

• guitar: Within this new context, Dave's guitar histrionics work well adding considerable flavor to the original compositions.
• rock: No longer an arena for fancy and risk taking, the face of chart pop changed to gray, empty, gestural rock histrionics.