Words similar to melodrama

Example sentences for: melodrama

How can you use “melodrama” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

--you bourgeois slaves to melodrama."
Most critics agree the film is heavy on melodrama, and the father's character is implausibly overbearing.
She says it lacks sourcing and attribution, "reverberates with the cloying sound of the talk-show confessional," and has a "propensity for Gothic melodrama and romance-novel prose."
British playwright David Hare wins praise for adapting Chekhov into colloquial language, though the melodrama of the original is said to remain.
The conflict is as old as melodrama, but Damon makes the lines sound as if he's hammering them out on the spot.