He doesn't sentimentalize it or melodramatize it.

It would have been a simple matter to melodramatize or caricature these soldiers' stories.

In his first novel since The Ordways, William Humphrey has remained true to the once effective formula for the Southern novel�using the Southern family to melodramatize the passing of a way of life through the death of the elder.

The film's strength is its refusal to melodramatize a situation whose inherent horror needs no melodrama.

O. Henry came very near to her, but did he not melodramatize her a little, sometimes cheapen her by his epigrammatic appraisal, fit her too neatly into his plot?