Sentence examples for not to be melodramatic from inspiring English sources

And not to be melodramatic or anything?

"Not to be melodramatic, but that sounds like a pretty extreme journey.

Not to be melodramatic, but I spent a lot of time crying today, and I'm feeling really drained and overwhelmed".

(Some in New Orleans made this "I've lived through it before, I can do it again" judgment as Katrina bore down, having survived even the Category 5 storm Camille in 1965. Not to be melodramatic about it, but some of the New Orleanians who perceived the risk of Katrina that way are now dead).

"One thing that occurs to me is the behavior of the tobacco companies denying the connection between smoking and lung cancer for the sake of profits, but this is an order of magnitude greater moral offence, in my opinion, because what is at stake is the fate of the planet, humanity, and the future of civilisation, not to be melodramatic".

Not to be melodramatic or anything.

"I don't want to be melodramatic," one told me, "but being prime minister is a very lonely job, and you really can't trust anybody, so to have someone to talk to who isn't after your job, who won't leak what you've said to the press and won't use what you've said against you - that's a real relief".

I don't wish to be melodramatic, but this reminds me of the Fugitive Slave Laws.

"I didn't want it to be melodramatic and milk the emotion too hard, but I also didn't want to water it down so much that it didn't have any dramatic impact," she said.

(Not to be all melodramatic and everything, but -- I might be a guy, but I have those "alone forever" fears, too).

Not to be overly melodramatic, but at the moment, it's becoming more and more apparent that corporate America and political elites of both parties are locked in an embrace that threatens to scuttle the world economy, the environment and our system of representative democracy.