Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Exaggerated behavior of a type associated with grand opera; histrionics.
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- noun
exaggerated or overlyemotional behaviour ;histrionics
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Examples
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He doesn't go for soap operatics when he easily could, in the same way that he never aims for cheap laughs built on shock values.
Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Norman Marshall Fine 2011
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Four years on and they have made a witty, hooky dance record in thrall to the rock operatics of Led Zeppelin and Queen.
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Throw in the genuine sense of loss in Agnetha's voice, Frida's operatics, a moodily expressionist video and plaintive synths as omnipresent as the rain "rattling" on the roof, and The Day Before You Came carries a sense of foreboding almost unparalleled in pop music.
Could an Abba reunion ever top The Day Before You Came? Stephen Emms 2010
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Written in the interim, the tracks on "The Promise" are a revelation, the missing link in the evolution of Springsteen's sound from the Spectorian operatics of "Born to Run" to the spartan solemnity of "Darkness."
Album review: Bruce Springsteen, "The Promise" Allison Stewart 2010
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Written in the interim, the tracks on "The Promise" are a revelation, the missing link in the evolution of Springsteen's sound from the Spectorian operatics of "Born to Run" to the spartan solemnity of "Darkness."
Allison Stewart reviews the new Springsteen 1970s release 'The Promise' Allison Stewart 2010
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Then the story blasts off to the stars for some awesomely cosmic space-operatics.
Archive 2010-01-03 2010
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Storywise, all the tangled continuity and soap operatics surrounding how these characters died is far less relevant than the simple fact that they're dead and being horrifically reanimated.
BLACKEST NIGHT: Concluding Overview, Pt. 4: New Reader Friendliness 2010
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The way Shinoda's rich, velvet voice lays down a bed over which Chester's operatics soar, and the way Chester's own beautiful melodies contrast with the rough edge in his voice.
Archive 2008-06-01 kittenpie 2008
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Then the story blasts off to the stars for some awesomely cosmic space-operatics.
SINESTRO CORPS WAR 2010
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Storywise, all the tangled continuity and soap operatics surrounding how these characters died is far less relevant than the simple fact that they're dead and being horrifically reanimated.
Archive 2010-05-02 2010
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