melodrama
Example Sentences
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Devoid of music or melodrama, this is slow cinema at its most viscerally rigorous and patient.
From Los Angeles Times
From the look of it, one of her favorite Israeli melodramas.
From Literature
Filmmakers still find a way to focus on the same themes that dominate Nollywood: love, vengeance and treason all make good fodder for the at times over-the-top melodrama Nigerian movies are known for.
From Barron's
From the look of it, one of her favorite Israeli melodramas.
From Literature
Many things happen, never for too long; all kinds of maladies, medications and melodramas are involved.
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