The characters sometimes speak and behave melodramatically.
The husband dismisses the chauffeur, who vows revenge, and matters escalate melodramatically towards a deadly conclusion.
I am not trying melodramatically to put matters out of proportion.
It is roughly produced and melodramatically performed.
In short, we reach the counter-intuitive conclusion that cabinet instability (or, less melodramatically, ministerial turnover) can be welfare-improving.
"The terror is so thick you can cut it with a knife," says one insider, melodramatically.
She is bemused by how her classmates melodramatically react to his death.