melodramatic

Neither the stage production nor the musical can do much with the melodramatic Madame Morrible, the headmistress at Shiz who becomes a key player in the Wonderful Wizard of Oz’s fascist machinations.

But if you listen to the score, right from the opening moments composer Umberto Smerilli makes a bold declaration about what kind of movie it is: nervy, tempestuous, winking and just a little bit 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.