Sample sentences for MELODRAMA

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Definition

a film or other drama with exaggerated emotions and interpersonal conflict as good battles evil

or:

behavior with exaggerated emotions and interpersonal conflict

a mesmerizing melodrama of forbidden love

Although the tone of the journal, written in the third person in a stilted, self-consciousness voice, often veers toward melodrama, the available evidence indicates that McCandless did not misrepresent the facts; telling the truth was a credo he took seriously.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

melodrama = exaggerated emotions

It's no credit to me or Aunt Loma that we were enjoying our roles in this melodrama.
Olive Ann Burns -- Cold Sassy Tree
But how can I when she won't say she's sorry, or even admit her role in this melodrama?
Ellen Hopkins -- Identical
I'm tired of this melodrama, I'm tired of keeping silent.
Margaret Atwood -- The Handmaid's Tale
I remember Grandma Kato as thin and tough, not given to melodrama or overstatement of any kind.
Joy Kogawa -- Obasan
Enough with this melodrama.
Ted Dekker -- White: The Great Pursuit
7, and that wasn't exactly the stuff of which high melodrama was made.
Stephen King -- Misery
When war began I followed the news as melodrama.
Russell Baker -- Growing Up
At the California Labor School a forceful and perceptive teacher quickly and unceremoniously separated me from melodrama.
Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
You make me feel like a villain in a melodrama — twirling my mustache while I try to steal some poor girl's virtue.
Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse
(With a tremendous and rather insincere sense of melodrama) 'Course I thinks it's wonderful how our folks keeps on pushing out.
Lorraine Hansberry -- A Raisin in the Sun
A lurid melodrama, of shackled beauties and doomed romances and pervasive oppression, all told in such breathless, high-spirited fashion.
Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
The heavy melodrama of some of the scenes was unhackneyed to them: they bent eagerly to the apple-shooting scene, and the escape by boat.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
And what he says next isn't self-pity or angst or melodrama.
Katja Millay -- The Sea of Tranquility
Once the Officer cures the melodrama accompanying the injury, they find that all Lon has is a slightly twisted ankle.
Ally Condie -- Matched
But Rufo is as full of dire forebodings as a cheap melodrama.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Glory Road
Maggie always departed with raised spirits from the showing places of the melodrama.
Stephen Crane -- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
It is melodrama; but I can't help it.
Ford Madox Ford -- The Good Soldier
Their words were not mawkish melodrama; they meant what they said.
James M. McPherson -- What They Fought For - 1861-1865

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