The threat may sound melodramatic, but it is not idle.

The names were chosen to sound melodramatic and exciting, things like Hammerbeak and Bloodrender.

Surely, it does sound melodramatic, like a lurid tale of a paper back novel.

That may sound melodramatic, somewhat overemotional, but from Guardiola's point of view it is true.

It may sound melodramatic, but from where I stood, the world as it was seemed complicated.

I don't want to sound melodramatic, Mr. Tilfer, but this really is about life and death.

It may sound melodramatic, but there is evidence that thousands of Frenchmen are commissioning genetic paternity tests from foreign laboratories every year.

I don't want to sound melodramatic, but I even think it's a little dangerous, with some of the kind of people we have around here.

It sounds melodramatic, but I had it straight from a friend.

It sounds melodramatic, but I thought I was going to die at that moment.

She read it over slowly: "My, that sounds melodramatic!" she commented.

I admit that the story sounds melodramatic; but truth is more drama than comedy, I fancy.

That sounds melodramatic now that I hear myself saying it, but that's what it felt like.

That sounds melodramatic, but it's true.

That sounds melodramatic indeed.

Even to me - the person who regularly snaps cab drivers' IDs at home and abroad - that sounds melodramatic, possibly neurotic.