Adjective complement with noun phrase

• seem: Whilst it might seem a touch melodramatic, there is certainly no shortage of passion on the field.

Modifies a noun

• plot: There is a melodramatic surface plot that seems rather trite by modern standards.

• story: The realistic story is certainly more artistic than the melodramatic story.

• style: She was also influenced by Bernhardt's melodramatic acting style, in which the tragic fate of her characters took center stage.

• imagination: Watching ' Dallas ' : soap opera and the melodramatic imagination.

• tale: Or is he attempting to devalue this by placing it in a melodramatic tale told by a ' silly ' woman?

• tone: Instead of a subtle biting humor, Life has a melodramatic tone with obvious sex jokes.

Modifying Another Word

• overly: Middleton manages to craft tunes that are both heartbreaking and life affirming, without being overly melodramatic.

• somewhat: Geraldo is somewhat melodramatic, hurling his arms about like an Italian explaining there's a bomb in the windmill.

• rather: In an earlier version of this entry, I was rather melodramatic about this.

• too: Without wishing to be too melodramatic about the issue, the role that you can play in this is also crucial.

• so: JOHN: There's no need to be quite so melodramatic.

• very: CT: To answer your question, I was very scared of that scene because those scenes tend to be very melodramatic.

Used with adjective complement

• sound: This might sound melodramatic, as if taken from a cheap novel.

• seem: Even the accompanying background music seemed melodramatic to me, sort of over-indulgent, in a way.

• become: In A the language is trying too hard, perhaps, to be dramatic and becomes melodramatic.

• get: In both cases, neither Benigno nor Marco gets melodramatic about it, they're simply stating a fact.