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. ❋ Gene Weingarten (2011)

Breath itself is melodramatized in summoning the so-called verb of being. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The series managed to diminish the horror even as it melodramatized it. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ 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. ❋ Adams, Robert M. (1977)

He has melodramatized the art, introduced in it a species of false, theatrical, _personal_ feeling, quite foreign to its nature. ❋ James Huneker (1890)

Bureau conducts critical analysis by detecting melodramatized appropriations and reappropriations. ❋ Unknown (2010)