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melodrama
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  • 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.  (source)
    melodrama = exaggerated emotions
  • SHAWN AND I AUDITIONED for a melodrama at Worm Creek.†  (source)
  • There was too much melodrama in it — too much luck, both bad and good.†  (source)
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  • That's a bit melodramatic, isn't it, Valentine?†  (source)
  • The pilot looked like he was festooned for a Shakespearean melodrama.†  (source)
  • Too many melodramas all turned up to max.†  (source)
  • Viktor responded to his wife that this was nonsense; that she was being melodramatic.†  (source)
  • Once the Officer cures the melodrama accompanying the injury, they find that all Lon has is a slightly twisted ankle.†  (source)
  • Robert Macaire is the hero of two favorite melodramas—"Chien de Montargis" and "Chien d'Aubry"—and the name is applied to bold criminals as a term of derision.†  (source)
  • I worried that I was just being melodramatic or narcissistic.†  (source)
  • But it was pretty minor, league stuff; the highest his temperature had ever gone was 100.7, and that wasn't exactly the stuff of which high melodrama was made.†  (source)
  • You are like one of the heroes of those silly melodramas mother used to be so fond of acting in.†  (source)
  • Roy and Beatrice had watched in helpless disgust as she'd locked Mullet Fingers in a smothering, melodramatic hug.†  (source)
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