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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)
  • I'm tired of this melodrama, I'm tired of keeping silent.†  (source)
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  • That's a bit melodramatic, isn't it, Valentine?†  (source)
  • Insane Radchaai ships were a staple of melodrama, inside and outside Radchaai space.†  (source)
  • You are like one of the heroes of those silly melodramas mother used to be so fond of acting in.†  (source)
  • Viktor responded to his wife that this was nonsense; that she was being melodramatic.†  (source)
  • He quirks his eyebrows and adds, with a touch of melodrama, "To decide our fate."†  (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 while his books are filled with sappy melodrama, Yoshimoto reflects on the healing process.†  (source)
  • It is the custom on the stage, in all good murderous melodramas, to present the tragic and the comic scenes, in as regular alternation, as the layers of red and white in a side of streaky bacon.†  (source)
  • I laughed then, because it sounded so melodramatic.†  (source)
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