melo-dramatic

The darn melo-dramatic instinct is just about taking over, and I need something to kick its arse.

Grace In Small Things: Part 210 of 365 2009

The ANC believed that the police raid that followed the granting of the search warrant was melo-dramatic, heavy-handed and reminiscent of the past.

WINNIE MANDELA CIVIL CASE 1995

It has often struck us forcibly that the science of melo-dramatic music has been hitherto very imperfectly understood amongst us.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 24, 1841 Various

The old-fashioned recipe for cooking up a melo-dramatic hero has been strictly followed in "Nina Sforza."

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 6, 1841, Various

Boatmen swearing and yelling to each other as the boats came near collision, and that infernal scream sounding off through the pine barrens like some spirit newly damned; horses prancing and threshing on the bows; men growling at cards, and over head thunder and lightning leading off the storm in a very brilliant and point-blank manner; all which was quite rousing and melo-dramatic.

The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 Various

Charles Sumner; as dramatic as father Taylor, and as melo-dramatic as

Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail Harry A. Lewis

His lyre was attuned to reach the ear rather than the heart; his scenes are in enchanted lands; his _dramatis personæ_ tread theatrical boards; his thunder is a melo-dramatic roll; his lightning is pyrotechny; his tears are either hypocritical or maudlin; and his laughter is the perfection of genteel comedy.

English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee

Though the tragedy possesses little originality, it will, from its melo-dramatic and exciting character, be most likely a very successful one.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 6, 1841, Various

The form of dramatic composition now most in vogue is the burlesque; or, in the language of the great Planché, "the original, grand, comic, romantic, operatic, melo-dramatic, fairy extravaganza!"

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Various

_Spinola_ offers to strengthen it; and the last scene of this act -- the fourth -- presents a highly melo-dramatic situation.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 6, 1841, Various