Sentence examples for this seemed melodramatic from inspiring English sources

But this seemed melodramatic.

Laurence H. Tribe, one of Mr. Gore's lawyers, said in a television interview that dissenting opinions often seemed melodramatic.

It has all the best virtues of American film noir but with a European sensibility that could have seemed melodramatic or pretentious in a Hollywood film.

If that seems melodramatic, it isn't: everyone in chick flicks behaves that way.

James Poniewozik of Time noted that while its concept seemed melodramatic, the episode "focuses unflinchingly on the subject of loss, yet manages to be not a downer or painful to watch, but moving, absorbing and even hopeful".

In another actor's hands this scene would fall flat, or seem melodramatic or outdated but in Daniel Day-Lewis' hands it is completely devastating.

In another actor's hands this scene would fall flat or seem melodramatic or outdated, but in Daniel Day-Lewis's hands it is completely devastating.

When the mentor is proved right in "Autumn," the proof may at first seem melodramatic and literal minded.

The novel's constant stream of startling revelations can seem melodramatic, but Cercas makes a virtue of excess, aiming to throw off the yoke of fashionable detachment.

The fierce emotional pitch would seem melodramatic were it not for Shapiro's understanding of the mother's anxious, guilt-ridden world.

It may seem melodramatic but is probably accurate to say the N.R.C. safety inspection program is on a par with our hit-or-miss airport security.