melodramatically

melodramatic | American Dictionary

melodramatic
adjective
us/ˌmel·ə·drəˈmæt̬·ɪk/
tending to behave or show emotion in ways that are more extreme than usual:
I’ve always been a little melodramatic.

Examples of melodramatic

melodramatic
The accompaniment draws on all the topoi of melodramatic rhetoric, but makes particular use of instrumental solos identified with a particular character.
Their storylines are slender, and either whimsical or mildly melodramatic.
The overlap between gestures of interiority and the conventions of melodramatic display makes it difficult to imagine a deportment of interiority.
To make it more palatable, he conforms to melodramatic conventions.
The combination of melodramatic pathos and ethnographic curiosity had an unquestionably broad marketability, and not just for theatre.
Yet, paradoxically, through utilizing melodramatic convention, dramatists were able to focus attention on the plight of the child worker.
This emphasis becomes apparent only when melodramatic convention is read comparatively against the play's revisionist treatment of a well-known historical subject.
Instead of melodramatic confrontation industrial reformers advocated a language of respectful negotiation among reasonable men, with differing but not necessarily incompatible interests.
This worked well with the over-the-top melodramatic plot we were sonifying.
The designation ba nupasand mocks a particular kind of constitution of a female subject-she who takes pleasure in melodramatic fantasy.
Still, the novel, in trying to dramatize the soldier's situation, employs melodramatic devices reminiscent of many stage plays.
Holmes introduces this idea by specifically addressing the interconnection between femininity, disability, and marriage which resides at the center of the melodramatic plot.
Would we be shocked by archaisms (as we surely would be if some of the staging manuals' melodramatic instructions to the singers were followed)?
However, operas did need to be updated and adapted to changing melodramatic taste and conventions.
Hone was the melodramatic hero of his own narrative: the virtuous man of the lower orders overcoming the corruption of the aristocratic state.
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