Words similar to melodramatic

Example sentences for: melodramatic

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Nothing in the movie's melodramatic narrative can diminish the shocking immediacy of its combat scenes.
Nor is Ross incapable of a melodramatic cliché herself.
Lumet's tempo and staging are just realistic enough to allow you to resent him for melodramatic devices that slicker directors get away with.
Most critics fault the film on other counts, particularly its languid pacing, stock characters (Nolte plays a seductive handyman), and melodramatic dialogue.
Degas' pragmatic association of photography with death recalls Roland Barthes' far more melodramatic one: "Photography may correspond to the intrusion, in our modern society, of an asymbolic Death, outside of religion, outside of ritual, a kind of abrupt dive into literal Death."