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Melodramatic

adjective

Having the excitement and emotional appeal of melodrama.

Characteristic of acting or a stage performance; often affected. Synonym: histrionic. "An attitude of melodramatic despair" , "A theatrical pose"

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"Melodramatic" Quotes from Famous Books

... I do not vouch for the strict correctness of Lenz's somewhat melodramatic narrative; and having given this warning I shall, to keep myself free from all responsibility, simply translate the rest of what ...

— Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician - Volume 1-2, Complete • Frederick Niecks

... danced away, and gathered in, the shimmering, sun-flooded desert ... an endless flat expanse of silver sage and sentinel cactus. I saw bleached bones and a side-cast skull with whitened horns, poking up into the sky ... I saw a sick steer straggling alone, exactly like some melodramatic painting of Western life ... the kind we see hanging for sale in second-rate ...

— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp

... head was anxiously bowed down on his breast, relax and unburden himself in his conversations with me, but I was unsuccessful, on account of his constant reserve and suspicion, and his studied aloofness. An opportunity arose for a discussion between us when he wanted the orchestra to take a melodramatic part (which they afterwards did) in a certain scene of his Uriel Acosta, where the hero had to recant his alleged heresy. The orchestra had to execute the soft tremolo for a given time on certain chords, but when I heard the performance it appeared ...

— My Life, Volume I • Richard Wagner

... to himself, in the melodramatic tones of a whimsical boy, that the schoolmaster had drawn at that well scores of times on a morning like this, and would never draw there any more. "I've seen him look down into it, when he was tired with ...

— Jude the Obscure • Thomas Hardy

... Why have you never been here before? Why are her letters to you sealed with red wax, bought especially for the purpose? Why does she go away before you come? Lady Gwendolen Hetherington," he demanded, with melodramatic fervour, "answer me these things ...

— Lavender and Old Lace • Myrtle Reed

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