0 showing much stronger emotions than are necessary or usual for a situation: --
a melodramatic speech
1 tending to behave or show emotion in ways that are more extreme than usual: --
I’ve always been a little melodramatic.
Hone was the melodramatic hero of his own narrative: the virtuous man of the lower orders overcoming the corruption of the aristocratic state.
However, operas did need to be updated and adapted to changing melodramatic taste and conventions.
Would we be shocked by archaisms (as we surely would be if some of the staging manuals' melodramatic instructions to the singers were followed)?
Holmes introduces this idea by specifically addressing the interconnection between femininity, disability, and marriage which resides at the center of the melodramatic plot.
Still, the novel, in trying to dramatize the soldier's situation, employs melodramatic devices reminiscent of many stage plays.
The designation ba nupasand mocks a particular kind of constitution of a female subject-she who takes pleasure in melodramatic fantasy.
This worked well with the over-the-top melodramatic plot we were sonifying.
Instead of melodramatic confrontation industrial reformers advocated a language of respectful negotiation among reasonable men, with differing but not necessarily incompatible interests.
