melodramatic
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- s having the excitement and emotional appeal of melodrama
a melodramatic account of two perilous days at sea - s characteristic of acting or a stage performance; often affected
an attitude of melodramatic despair
- The Horrible Story of the Horror Comics (1999), Brit comics fan Stephen Sennitt describes the melodramatic panorama as an incredible array of primal fears; a plunge into the .
- The picture is full of strong, soberly realistic performances; its melodramatic beats are not too many and, in context, not particularly overstated.
- It began with venting his disgust for the melodramatic drivel he saw on television, then expanded to include riffs about false advertising and polluting consumer products.