melodramatic

But if you listen to the score, right from the opening moments composer Umberto Smerilli makes a bold declaration about what kind of movie it is: nervy, tempestuous, winking and just a little bit melodramatic.

You’re playing the goofy vampire, but you also get to do these really emotional, almost melodramatic scenes.

McCarthy was a political celebrity in the early 1950s for his melodramatic, viciously personal and often baseless attacks against thousands of Americans.

Other doctors, commenters have noted, have occasionally laughed at them or made them feel they were being melodramatic.

Fortunately, the glass theft was just one of hundreds of melodramatic plotlines in the series about a Protestant minister, his wife and their five — and later, seven — children.