Words similar to melodrama

Example sentences for: melodrama

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Dunne's gift for melodrama and exaggeration, says The New Yorker 's Jeffrey Toobin, makes him the "perfect chronicler for the case."
Reviewers say its conventional use of melodrama cheapens the atrocities of the Yugoslavian war.
Some critics are less generous and note a heavy reliance on melodrama and film noir tropes; the Daily News ' Fintan O'Toole writes that the play is no "lost masterpiece."
The upshot might be melodrama, but it's melodrama with heart, bones, sinews, and tear ducts.
British playwright David Hare wins praise for adapting Chekhov into colloquial language, though the melodrama of the original is said to remain.