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But the question persistently gnaws: is this a work of serious literature, as the author obviously desires it to be, or just a nice little melodrama spoiled by oversolemnity?

From Time Magazine Archive

Special Agent Ware took out a cigar, inspected it with the drunken oversolemnity he'd been drilling himself into for five years, and lit it.

From Four-Day Planet by Piper, H. Beam