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.

Opulent, gothic, melodramatic and crammed full of hooks, The Last Dinner Party’s album is an antidote to all the quiet, confessional ballads that have populated the charts for the last five years.