melodramatic
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1. melodramatic - Adjective
2. melodramatic - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action.
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
Murder, I'm afraid, if someone does not intervene.” He laughed. "Oh, you women are so melodramatic. Do no expect me to catch you when you faint.” "I would rather hit the ground. Good day, sir.
... it is certainly wrong to condemn poor old Homo Sapiens as the only species to kill his own kind, the only inheritor of the mark of Cain, and similar melodramatic charges.
And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.
The thing about romance and romantic movies is that they can be somewhat melodramatic. For a lot of actors, there's a certain cringe factor that's involved with that.
We've come to expect so little from online privacy measures that public displays of concern about the matter are more or less for show. Being devastated to discover you've been tagged in somebody else's photo has an air of the melodramatic about it at this point.