MELODRAMATICALLY • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Melodramatically

... conflict of flesh and spirit and the general tumult of feeling are too much for Amaury, and he takes refuge, through the seminary, in the priesthood. The last event of the book is the death and burial of Madame de Couaen, her husband and Amaury somewhat melodramatically—and perhaps with a slight suggestion both of awkward allegory and possible burlesque—hammering literal nails into her coffin, ...

— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 - To the Close of the 19th Century • George Saintsbury