melodramatic

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It’s a lofty goal, but it might not be very relevant, just like the absurd details of Kennedy’s melodramatic history.

From Salon

Considering our current climate of reactive, out-loud politics, the melodramatic straightforwardness of Lawrence and Lee’s story doesn’t seem as far-out as it once did.

From New York Times

While in retrospect it seems melodramatic, she said, “Something about it messed me up. … I was grappling with, ‘What makes someone go this far?’

From Washington Post

The dominant style, particularly among male novelists of the middle and later decades of the 20th century, has been melodramatic self-display.

From New York Times

That reminder — laid across a melodramatic image of an exasperated man talking to a pouting “Debra” — has been making the rounds of the Internet over the past week.

From Washington Post