operatic

[Jonathan Lighter]

I.e., "melodramatic."  OED's def. doesn't quite do it.  I've been familiar
with this nuance for probably a decade.

2012
http://www.salon.com/2012/12/14/pick_of_the_week_kathryn_bigelows_mesmerizing_post_911_nightmare/
: Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal's mesmerizing, operatic and profoundly
troubling “Zero Dark Thirty."

JL

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