Meanings of highly sensational in English

Two columns were occupied with a highly sensational and flowery rendering of the whole incident.

This story Neilson Poe set down as highly sensational.

Oh; it's highly sensational and melodramatic, I promise you!

Reporters had speedily gathered; the story would make a highly sensational sequel to the one already printed.

Yes, she wrote a story in a highly sensational style and brought it to me to read.

John Tarwater did look, but his eyes strayed to other photographs on the highly sensational front page.

The trial proved highly sensational.

It did not need the gossip of the train-hands to suggest that this was an elopement of a highly sensational kind.

The young person whose adventures were so highly sensational doffed her velveteens and donned the dainty garments of Miss Mildred Kingsland.

No novelist can, be more thrilling and picturesque than Reade, but he lacks restraint and is often highly sensational and melodramatic.

Thomas Cranley! exclaimed Barton, with an expression of face which probably spoke at least three volumes, and these of a highly sensational character.

The story ends with a highly sensational description of the death of Alexander by poisoning, and an elaborate enumeration of the pomps of his obsequies.