melodramatic

• “The teacher whose cell number you somehow got hold of so you could call her on weekends to discuss your grievances against other students and their parents in melodramatic fashion.”

  Last Minute Assistant Gift Guide

• “The president has made a tic of hammering in melodramatic movie tropes: good vs. evil, you're with us or you're with the terrorists, "wanted dead or alive," "bring 'em on," "mission accomplished.”

  July 2005

• “The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.”

  Zion's Vital Signs

• “On what can you possibly base that scenario, which you yourself call melodramatic? ”

  Banquets of the Black Widowers

• “If we don't include him in events or if we broach the topic of his social behavior, he treats it as a disaster and gets very melodramatic -- in other words, he pulls out all the stops on us!”

  The Washington Post: Ask Amy

• “A story of exciting action certainly; it has elements that would ordinarily be called melodramatic -- events which are focussed down into realities against the tremendous background of an incredible war.”

  When Winter Comes to Main Street

• “What one may call the melodramatic Irish story, in which Lever was so brilliantly successful, has its first famous example in _The Collegians_ of Gerald Griffin.”

  Irish Books and Irish People

• “Miss Havisham and her protegee, Estella, whom she educates to be the scourge of men, belong to what may be called the melodramatic side of Dickens 'art.”

  Life of Charles Dickens

• “Glaucus and Nydia at Pompeii would be called melodramatic rant.”

  Studies in Early Victorian Literature

• “Havisham and her _protégée_, Estella, whom she educates to be the scourge of men, belong to what may be called the melodramatic side of”

  Life of Charles Dickens

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