melodramatize
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The film's strength is its refusal to melodramatize a situation whose inherent horror needs no melodrama.
From Time Magazine Archive
It would have been a simple matter to melodramatize or caricature these soldiers' stories.
From Time Magazine Archive
O. Henry came very near to her, but did he not melodramatize her a little, sometimes cheapen her by his epigrammatic appraisal, fit her too neatly into his plot?
From Pipefuls by Morley, Christopher
