Sentence examples for as melodramatic as from inspiring English sources

Dialogue is sparse, and as melodramatic as a telenovela's.

I'm not saying "we're all in Guantànamo now", or anything as melodramatic as that.

But its story, it is clear from this extraordinary book, isn't half as melodramatic as the life that inspired it.

Pettitte is typically not as evasive as Giambi, as confrontational as Sheffield or as melodramatic as Rodriguez.

Although his letters home were desperate, he was never quite as melodramatic as his bunkmate Gushy Grubenfleisch, who once hid himself in the trunk of his dad's Cadillac DeVille at the end of Parents' Weekend.

PHILADELPHIA — Army-Navy is always about moments that go beyond the actual playing of a college football game, even one as melodramatic as Saturday's was in a snowstorm at Lincoln Financial Field.

His end, a suicide pact with his third wife, was every bit as melodramatic and coldly egotistical as the rest of his career: scarcely more than a headline.

Out of this plot, as melodramatic, creaky and violent as anything in Dickens, is built an absorbing power-struggle part comic, part sinister between the novelist and his subject.

Lewis Glucksman Gallery, to 8 Nov RC "It was a dark and stormy night…" The opening line of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1830 novel Paul Clifford, has been parodied as melodramatic cliche and adapted as a narrative prompt in a free-associational game akin to Consequences.

The songs associated with Piaf, by musicians and lyricists such as Michel Emer and Raymond Asso, all work as melodramatic mini soap-operas in French and, for the first half of the show, these qualities are often lost on an anglophone audience, despite clumsy attempts at theatricality and rather literal back projections.

This independent streak can strike critics as melodramatic.