melodramatics

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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

That host was incredibly banal and rude with those melodramatics.

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2022

Over 12 minutes of Wagnerian melodramatics, he repeated that guarantee no less that 30 times - but fans have long been confused about what it was he wouldn't do.

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2022

“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