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Adjective
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Lamps and fittings in bedrooms can easily be dimmed using an iPad, creating more theatrical mood settings than a stage lighting console.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
17 Mar. 2026 -
The dress has a mermaid silhouette and straight strapless neckline, which allowed for a theatrical play of volume and dramatic texture.—
Pamela Vázquez,
Glamour,
16 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The championship matchup last year ended with as much dramatic flair as possible.—
Theodore Tollefson,
Twin Cities,
19 Mar. 2026
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Bryce Harper then hit a two-run home run to tie the game, setting up the ninth inning for Venezuela’s dramatic win, when Eugenio Suarez hit what would be a game-winning double to drive in Javier Sanoja for a 3-2 lead.—
Washington Examiner Staff,
The Washington Examiner,
18 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The show’s one and only joke is that the story is played more or less straight and true to the language of soap operas with pregnant pauses, cheesy music cues, and melodramatic reveals — which is funny for a few scenes before turning into a laughless bore.—
Eric Vilas-Boas,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2026
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My mother was two parents in one, both male (decisive and withholding) and female (melodramatic and fanciful) at the same time.—
Han Ong,
New Yorker,
15 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Although injury recovery is challenging, many young athletes develop greater resilience, patience, emotional awareness and body awareness through rehabilitation.—
Ian McMahan,
New York Times,
21 Mar. 2026
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Still, while these surfaces are clearly meant to reflect deeper emotional and cultural truths, Coppola’s mining of them is done glancingly, airily.—
Naomi Fry,
New Yorker,
21 Mar. 2026
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His characters included Gayle Waters-Waters, a histrionic suburban woman based, in part, on his own mother, who co-starred as Gayle’s friend Bonnie.—
Rachel Syme,
New Yorker,
4 Mar. 2026
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The gap between how Trump is perceived by some Republicans (strong and confident) and his actual persona (overwrought and histrionic) is large.—
Mark Leibovich,
The Atlantic,
11 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The time piece was a sentimental detail, having belonged to Princess Diana, and which her late mother-in-law wore many times for her own public engagements.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
21 Mar. 2026
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Premiering the first of eight episodes on Sunday, March 22, The Comeback’s shaggy, despairing, hilarious, and sometimes baldly sentimental third season spends its first two episodes running through all the horsemen of the Hollywood-pocalypse.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
20 Mar. 2026
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“Hyperemotional.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hyperemotional. Accessed 24 Mar. 2026.
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