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a film or other drama with exaggerated emotions and interpersonal conflict as good battles evilor:
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
- 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
melodrama = exaggerated emotions
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