"He was the most evil dictator the world had ever seen," a narrator declared in the melodramatic tone of a movie trailer voice-over.

Under Leight's leadership, the show acquired a new, more melodramatic tone.

It all has the heightened, melodramatic tone of a silent film in which Little Nell is tied to railroad tracks.

She was sober at first, but she began to laugh as he read some of the verses aloud in a melodramatic tone.

Despite the melodramatic tone, Baxter's warning gives me pause.

Orchid deliberately slipped into melodramatic tones that were more appropriate to an actor in a late-night horror film.

Even you cannot resist a farcical melodramatic tone when you speak of it.

One can miss the mystery the ballet once had, but the melodramatic tone, as noted, is not out of place.

Wallach's memos became infamous for their conspiratorial and melodramatic tones.

Yet look at what we have had for weeks now: various reporters relating to us a commonplace in the melodramatic tones of outraged virtue.