Both Uses
melodrama
in
Tamar, by Mal Peet
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- But it's a melodramatic bloody situation, Andrew ....Well, of course I've thought about that, but ....No. Funnily enough that's the one thing I'm fairly sure of.†
- Which was a bit melodramatic, maybe, but it is pretty weird when you see your name everywhere and it's got nothing to do with you.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(melodrama) a story or behavior that is overly dramatic
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)