melodramatics
Example Sentences
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Ben Hania’s insistence on close-up melodramatics — faces in anguish, a handheld camera glued to them — sometimes overshadows a thirst for something more analytical.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2025
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
Heavy on romance and melodramatics, Thomas didn't see the TV show's appeal.
From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2019
Ms. Robertson has an appealing gravity, but she appears less comfortable with the melodramatics of “The Secret Circle” than she was with the wry comedy of “Life Unexpected.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2011
“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
