melodramatized

Boehner's tears, and Glenn Beck's, are trivial -- tears of maudlin sentiment, because they have mythologized and melodramatized the importance of their own lives.

The feminine mist: Why men fear the tears Gene Weingarten 2011

Breath itself is melodramatized in summoning the so-called verb of being.

Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian 2008

The series managed to diminish the horror even as it melodramatized it.

After The Survivors 2008

I thought he might have over-melodramatized a few portions of the story with the special effects, but overall it was a welcome and complementary addition.

EP064: Head of State 2006

I had heard about love this overwhelming—I had read about it, seen it melodramatized in countless advertisements and movies, known some people to whom it had happened.

Geography of the Heart Fention Johnson 1996

I had heard about love this overwhelming—I had read about it, seen it melodramatized in countless advertisements and movies, known some people to whom it had happened.

Geography of the Heart Fention Johnson 1996

I had heard about love this overwhelming—I had read about it, seen it melodramatized in countless advertisements and movies, known some people to whom it had happened.

Geography of the Heart Fention Johnson 1996

I had heard about love this overwhelming—I had read about it, seen it melodramatized in countless advertisements and movies, known some people to whom it had happened.

Geography of the Heart Fention Johnson 1996

This rich gallimaufry of narrative is softened here and melodramatized there for the modern taste, and exempt by being a fairy tale from merely rational criticism.

The Hobbit Habit Adams, Robert M. 1977

He has melodramatized the art, introduced in it a species of false, theatrical, _personal_ feeling, quite foreign to its nature.

Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques James Huneker 1890