How to Use melodramatic in a Sentence

melodramatic

adjective

• Oh, quit being so melodramatic!
• Russell did get some chances to break from the melodramatic mold.
  — Orlando Sentinel, 25 Sep. 2022
• But not the melodramatic sort found in so many lesser movies.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 12 Aug. 2021
• In this moment of big TV—epic settings, melodramatic plots—there’s a lot to be said for TV that is small.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2022
• The best of the interludes was before the Finale, with Gaga at her most melodramatic.
  — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2022
• And, sure, the film, though choking on melodramatic goo at times, is a nostalgic and fun re-watch.
  — Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Aug. 2022
• The movie isn’t a melodramatic tell-all, or a total downer.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 23 Dec. 2022
• The frenetic music in the background, the melodramatic slaps, Sarah Jane’s slow crumple to the asphalt.
  — New York Times, 23 Feb. 2021
• There is a semblance of a story, but Glazer is careful not to draw on the usual melodramatic tropes.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Dec. 2023
• The melodramatic piano music has put you on edge, as have the visible damp of the Savannah air and the oak trees dripping with moss.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2023
• The melodramatic proceedings are too stuffy and bloated to make much of an impact.
  — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2023
• If that seems melodramatic, consider that in the 26 first-half plays Sunday not targeting Kupp, the Rams gained 35 yards.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Nov. 2022
• But these most melodramatic moments are outliers in a show meant to leave fans making the heart sign with their actual hearts, if not hands.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 12 Oct. 2023
• The show was cancelled last spring, but — in a twist that could rival the soap’s melodramatic storylines — it was brought back from the dead by Amazon Freevee eight months later.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 18 Sep. 2023
• The delicacy of the acting manages for the most part to withstand the melodramatic pressures that are placed on the characters.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2021
• The house lights dimmed and a sort of political trailer played, set to melodramatic music.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022
• Kaul films Vashisht there in images of melodramatic power to rival those of any fiction.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2021
• The starkest hint comes in a melodramatic drawing of a despairing young man, head in hands, by Johan Thomas Lundbye.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2023
• To call the past 13 months in this rural part of Canada unfathomable feels almost melodramatic.
  — Eric MacK, Forbes, 18 July 2022
• Not so much brutal as brusque, the deed is too melodramatic for the subtle inflections that Field applies elsewhere.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2022
• This iconography is in vogue so far as the queen herself is adorned with unkempt makeup, a tattered dress, and a melodramatic demeanor.
  — Grant Sharples, SPIN, 17 Aug. 2022
• More recent examples are melodramatic or comedic, setting the stage for the cartoonish nature of the meme.
  — Sarah Spellings, Vogue, 4 Aug. 2022
• Less melodramatic, but more moving, are the works in which South Korean artists attempt to make connections across the border.
  — New York Times, 5 May 2021
• But this isn’t just a melodramatic scene from a telenovela.
  — Nicole Gull McElroy, Fortune, 4 July 2021
• Garcia turns in a humorous and heartfelt performance, palpably felt in the comedic stylings as well as the more melodramatic chords played.
  — Courtney Howard, Variety, 17 Nov. 2022
• Uranowitz is the only one who goes big but maintains his precision; Castelow resists the melodramatic tide, much to her credit.
  — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2022
• The script handles this conflict very well and doesn't let the argument become too melodramatic, which keeps both brothers very likable.
  — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 3 Mar. 2021
• The project delivers a melodramatic spin on the vivid, drug-dealing tales of slap music, the dominant Milwaukee street sound since the mid 2010s that’s marked by brash beats and stories of hustling.
  — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 21 Aug. 2023
• The director, Gina Prince-Bythewood, spotlights the melodramatic poignancy of the tale’s clever premise, yet does so all too briefly and glancingly—because of the film’s rigid genre framework.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 9 July 2020
• People throw around the word melodramatic, but very few people actually know what that means.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024