Words similar to melodramatic

Example sentences for: melodramatic

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Lumet's tempo and staging are just realistic enough to allow you to resent him for melodramatic devices that slicker directors get away with.
Scheck came to personify the grotesque defense attorney, bullying, self-righteous, melodramatic.
A bit melodramatic, maybe, but it's true that, in an age of airplanes and optical fibers, the world seems pretty small.
James Caan begins hilariously as Gina's hearty, lunkish father, but then has to get all noble under the weight of the picture's dumb, melodramatic contrivances.
Thoroughly staged and stage-managed, they're dramatic, or perhaps melodramatic, precisely because of the artificial structure of their formats.