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Definition of Melodramatizing
1. melodramatize [v] - See also: melodramatize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Melodramatizing
Literary usage of Melodramatizing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1847)
"... down with a little French polish the rugged angles of Spanish nationality,
and in other places he may be accused of melodramatizing rather over much. ..."
2. The New Movement in the Theatre by Sheldon Cheney (1914)
"The American playwright who, instead of melodramatizing the outward aspects of
American life, dramatizes its inner spir- , itual motives and its subtler ..."
3. The Profession of Journalism: A Collection of Articles on Newspaper Editing by Willard Grosvenor Bleyer (1918)
"By constantly emphasizing sensational news and by "sensationalizing"
and "melodramatizing" news that is not sufficiently startling, as well as by
editorials ..."
4. Handbook for Newspaper Workers, Treating Grammar, Punctuation, English by Grant Milnor Hyde (1921)
"The heightening of the facts to make a story brighter and more interesting amounts
to falsifying. The melodramatizing of news has had its run in the yellow ..."
5. Another Book on the Theatre by George Jean Nathan (1915)
"... contrived to discourage undue continence and the resultant mental lethargy of
his nation by his adroit trick of so melodramatizing and exaggerating the ..."
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