melodrama
Example Sentences
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He doesn’t resist the melodrama that’s inherent in the material, but he refuses to overindulge it.
From Los Angeles Times
The mixture of digitally warped instrumentation that emphasizes its artificiality and cinematic string arrangements that evoke the melodrama of old Hollywood is pleasingly jarring and disorienting.
“As Mac he avoids both melodrama and condescension, finding climaxes in each small step toward rehabilitation, each new responsibility shouldered.”
“If America is analyzed as a film genre, it would be a melodrama,” says Desson Thomson, a Washington Post staff critic for 20 years.
Market participants have come to assume they will come out of these recurring melodramas intact.
From Barron's
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