melodramatics
Example Sentences
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The ride up with Fanny in Act 1 is gleeful, but the climb back down in Act 2, after the shine has worn off the marriage, plunges the show into dreary melodramatics.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2022
If you’re young, Latino and slightly prone to melodramatics, you might be the kind of person who stays up for a midnight Bad Bunny album release.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2022
Heavy on romance and melodramatics, Thomas didn't see the TV show's appeal.
From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2019
Even in my despair, though, I had to reluctantly acknowledge that my Dantean melodramatics were bordering on the histrionic.
From Slate ● Feb. 7, 2017
“Now that is the most theatrical display of melodramatics I have ever seen in my life.”
From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling
